Comments on: How to contribute to Eclipse projects…

By: Remy

Remy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:39:19 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Mik. I don’t use Mylyn myself but I’m sure other people will find this useful.

By: Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:41:29 +0000

Remy: note that if you’re using Mylyn, you can save quite a few clicks by creating a patch into the clipboard, and then using the task editor to attach the contents of the clipboard.

It would be even easier if we had the following feature. I marked it for bugday in case anyone is interested.

152213: support creating patches by dragging change set onto task editor
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=152213

By: Remy

Remy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:12:32 +0000

Wayne, I’ve filed bug 222105.

By: Wayne Beaton

Wayne Beaton — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:21:44 +0000

Hi Remy. Please consider submitting this as an article for Eclipse Corner.

By: Remy

Remy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:24:53 +0000

Darin: You’re welcome, happy to help!

Ian: I think that’s a great idea. I know some projects like Platform/UI and Mylyn already have some kind of guide for prospective contributors on the wiki but it’d be nice if we could add more to it.

By: Ian Bull

Ian Bull — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:07:08 +0000

Remy,

This is an excellent post! I have been hacking / working / contributing / committing to eclipse for 4 years and I found this very useful. Maybe we should look at turning something like this into a wiki pag at Eclipse.

By: Darin Swanson

Darin Swanson — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:59:21 +0000

Thanks for you help with triage Remy!

By: Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:18:41 +0000

Nice post, *claps*

By: Remy

Remy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:47:08 +0000

Tomasz, your comment about the Plug-in Spy is very true. I have not used it very much because I never remember its existence but it has helped me a lot on the few times that I did invoke that keybinding. :)

Also, please feel free to link prospective contributors to this post!

By: Tomasz Zarna

Tomasz Zarna — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:29:35 +0000

Sometimes it’s much faster to find the code snippet by using PDE’s Plug-in Spy (http://www.eclipse.org/pde/incubator/spy/). At least this is what I’ve started using recently for any UI stuff. For inner guts, breakpoints are still the best way I know too.

Cheers

PS. Cool post Remy, I hope you don’t mind if I use it to answer “how to contribute” questions.