Hello!
I have blogged about the role of NetBeans Wiki in popularizing and contributing to the spread of NetBeans IDE before. Please check out How about Community Docs within the IDE? for more details.
Now Me and Varun Nischal have decided to give the idea a real shot. Amit Kumar Saha and James Branam are also giving valuable guidance. Varun has also given a brief idea about the plan in his recent interview on the official netbeans website.
You can find further details and implementation plans here. We encourage all NetBeans enthusiasts who may want to contribute to come forward with the ideas.
Looking forward to your thoughts!
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June 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Hi Jay,
Although this is the first time i am directly contacting you, I have been following your good work at Community Docs.
This idea is great. Varun and you have done a good job by bringing this idea back to light. I was reluctant to join this project when it was proposed initially. I was a newbie at that time and hardly had any knowledge about NetBeans Architecture. Since then its been an enlightening journey. I have explored quite a few APIs to understand how things work in NetBeans.
Offline Community Docs will serve a great utility for Docs contributor.
The initial thought that comes to my mind is a something like a push mechanism. As mentioned in the project specifications on the wiki, the user will need to press submit and then document gets published on the wiki. To do that, I think we need some API support from http://wiki.netbeans.org . Using this API support, publishing of documents can be done easily.
To make things clearer, I would like to give the example of the blogger plugin for NetBeans uploaded by Shantaram Waingankar. This plugin(which was recently uploaded again after some issues) uses the Google GData API to publish the posts directly to the Blogger account and viewed immediately.
If such similar API support exists or an access can be obtained or developed for http://wiki.netbeans.org, things could be simpler. Then as mentioned the NetBeans IDE can act as the client to this service.
I don't know about the feasibility about this thought, but we can collectively work and make progress.
I think more Community members will come forward to contribute to this project.
Let me know what you and Varun think about this.
June 15, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Hey Kunal,
Oh! Glad to know, you were interested some time ago. Anyways, I have made certain changes, revised the Wiki slightly and removed Versioning from module, for the time being.
I had mailed the webteam, nbdev mailing lists, to help in this regard. However, they said checkout is possible with the help of some API's, but not commit.
So, we have made relevant changes in our design, and now we would do as mentioned in the revised Wiki.
Thanks for your comment and pointers. Hope more people come in with invaluable ideas.
Regards,
Varun
June 15, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Hi Kunal!
Thanks for the input. As mentioned by Varun, please check out the revised WIKI proposal. See if you can think in that direction.
Thanks again!
June 17, 2008 at 7:38 AM
jay,
i've just gone through the wiki proposal. its interesting and we should give a serious try.
here are some ideas that popped up
instead of the user having to copy the edited ad formatted doc from nb to the wiki site is there some way we could allow him to post directly. i dont think there iss an API available. to get an idea check the example of the blogger plugin/ blogger api as kunal suggested.
this would give a huge boost to the project usbility but its feasibility needs to checked.
apart from this the project outline seems good.
another development, maybe in the future would be to allow users to save offline versions of some docs from the wiki site, so they can refer to it offline in nb.
I'll try to explore the posting.
good luck to the project.
June 19, 2008 at 2:35 AM
Hello Shashank,
We will surely consider the idea. If you have any other ideas feel free to contact me at jai.mahadeokar at gmail.com
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