Donate Code?

[Bill Brown <wb...@colorfulsoftware.com>]

Greetings:

I have the basic makings of an Atom 1.0 pure java implementation at my 
site http://colorfulsoftware.com/projects/atomsphere.  I don't know how 
stable the abdera codebase is but I want to offer my source code for 
help making this project more stable.  It uses the stax api.  After 
browsing the incubator site it looks like there is already more 
functionality in abdera than atomsphere.  Are there any development 
areas of this project that still need help? 

Thanks.
Bill Brown.

Re: Donate Code?

[James M Snell <ja...@gmail.com>]

The client code would be a great place to start.  There are lots of
little implementation issues that need to be fleshed out, such as the
use of the Commons HttpClient and various nuances it has with connection
management.  The client side caching support also needs a good amount of
testing and we have a nagging problem with test cases that get hung up.

- James

Garrett Rooney wrote:
> On 9/23/06, Bill Brown <wb...@colorfulsoftware.com> wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I have the basic makings of an Atom 1.0 pure java implementation at my
>> site http://colorfulsoftware.com/projects/atomsphere.  I don't know how
>> stable the abdera codebase is but I want to offer my source code for
>> help making this project more stable.  It uses the stax api.  After
>> browsing the incubator site it looks like there is already more
>> functionality in abdera than atomsphere.  Are there any development
>> areas of this project that still need help?
> 
> There are always areas that need help ;-)
> 
> Off the top of my head, we always need more tests (and fixes for
> whatever bugs are found when writing tests), the server code is in
> heavy development, and the client code is very new and could probably
> use some attention.  Perhaps most importantly we need people to use
> Abdera in applications and tell us what's wrong with the APIs, what's
> inconvenient to use, what's not possible, what's poorly documented.
> Then we need patches to fix those problems ;-)
> 
> -garrett
> 

Re: Donate Code?

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On 9/23/06, Bill Brown <wb...@colorfulsoftware.com> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I have the basic makings of an Atom 1.0 pure java implementation at my
> site http://colorfulsoftware.com/projects/atomsphere.  I don't know how
> stable the abdera codebase is but I want to offer my source code for
> help making this project more stable.  It uses the stax api.  After
> browsing the incubator site it looks like there is already more
> functionality in abdera than atomsphere.  Are there any development
> areas of this project that still need help?

There are always areas that need help ;-)

Off the top of my head, we always need more tests (and fixes for
whatever bugs are found when writing tests), the server code is in
heavy development, and the client code is very new and could probably
use some attention.  Perhaps most importantly we need people to use
Abdera in applications and tell us what's wrong with the APIs, what's
inconvenient to use, what's not possible, what's poorly documented.
Then we need patches to fix those problems ;-)

-garrett