Changes

Students were introduced to technical, social and pragmatic aspects of developing open source software through direct involvement in [http://www.eclipse.org/webtools Eclipse WTP] project. They worked under the guidance of Seneca professor [[User:JAnastasiade|Jordan Anastasiade]], alongside Seneca professor [[User:Pliu|Peter Liu]], and within the [http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community Eclipse Community] to identify, reproduce, and fix bugs from the [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/report.cgi?x_axis_field=priority&y_axis_field=product&z_axis_field=bug_severity&query_format=report-table&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=WebTools&product=WTP+Common+Tools&product=WTP+ServerTools&product=WTP+Source+Editing&product=WTP+Webservices&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&priority=P2&priority=P3&priority=P4&priority=P5&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&format=table&action=wrap&field0-0-0=assigned_to&type0-0-0=regexp&value0-0-0=.@ca.ibm.com&field0-0-1=noop&type0-0-1=noop&value0-0-1= Eclipse Bugs] database(Bugzilla). They were encouraged to contribute to the community in any way they can. This could involve writing code to fix bugs, testing solutions, contributing to a bug fix or developing tutorials. [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/DPS909_and_OSD600_Winter_2009_Eclipse_WTP_Weekly_Schedule Winter 2009] was the first time run through of [https://cs.senecac.on.ca/index.php?outline=DPS909 DPS909] and [https://cs.senecac.on.ca/index.php?outline=OSD600 OSD600] with Eclipse WTP. This page reflects a summary of the work done during the course and students' accomplishments.

'''[https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=256185 Null pointer when changing reference kind in the properties view with type combo box open in design view]''', fix fixed by [[User:Pliu| Peter Liu]]

As described in Peter Liu's blog posting "[http://pliu.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/eclipse-wtp-exciting-news/ Eclipse WTP - Exciting News]", through '''collaboration''' and '''mentoring''' from Jordan and professional WTP developers , students gained knowledge, fixed bugs, and experienced the great feeling of '''success''' in this course. The students' efforts paid off with learning from and contributing to the community.