SebastianKlus Would Like to Check-in

Who am I?

At first sight, I am an architect and therefore have nothing directly to do with wikis, programming or similar stuff. At second sight, I love nearly everything that has to do with computers, especially when there is way to manipulate it and I can figure out how.

I am working at a medium size architects' office and I implemented TWiki here as an intranet system and have it running like for a year now. And it works fine - although I am architect

What do I want?

twikiplugins

As to what I read, plugins are now developed within the trunk. As I am trying to develop a new plugin (see below), I suppose I could submit it to the trunk once the access is granted, correct?

What can I do?

As I was never teached programming, I figured out many things by myself. So a lot of reading, searching and learning by trial and error.

I consider myself quite fit at everything that has to do with XHTML, CSS, PHP and SQL. I think I know quite a lot about networks and am able to tweak source code as long as it is not too complex. And I know still little about SVN and Unix environments, but I am trying to improve that.

So summing up, I know a little of different areas, although nothing really well. But I love digging me into new stuff, so I hope I will improve in near future in whatever else I have to know.

Why do I want to do it?

This goes a little bit into the same direction as the previous item: I like figuring out new things and I like to distract myself on the computer. And I like TWiki. So that might be a good mixture for bringing in new ideas or aspects.

On the other hand, I have/had to fit TWiki into a Spanish-speaking Windows environment, beginning with the system configuration and ending up with documentation, so why not share what I need and like to do with someone else?

Other Notes

By force, I am working in three languages - German by default, Spanish in the office and a lot of English with clients. TWiki's English and German teams are already quite strong, but perhaps I can backup in the Spanish sector.

Lately I was working on the Spanish language file (see es.po for TWiki04x02x01 release) and presently I am trying to push on the topic translations (see SpanishTWikiContrib).

Topics I have contributed to

Topic	Last Modified	Last Editor
Codev.WebStatistics	2012-05-26 - 04:02	Main.unknown
TWiki.WebStatistics	2012-05-26 - 04:02	Main.unknown
Support.WebStatistics	2012-05-26 - 04:02	Main.unknown
Codev.TWikiOrgStatistics	2012-05-11 - 03:55	PeterThoeny
TWiki.TWikiTutorial	2012-03-29 - 22:24	JonForrest
Codev.TestCasesTutorial	2012-03-18 - 01:21	PeterThoeny
TWiki.TWikiTopics	2012-01-24 - 20:01	PeterThoeny
TWiki.TWikiHistory	2012-01-16 - 01:39	PeterThoeny
TWiki.WelcomeGuest	2011-11-29 - 22:32	DavidBaldwin
Codev.TranslationSupport	2011-08-28 - 05:41	PeterThoeny
TWiki.ATasteOfTWiki	2011-08-19 - 05:25	PeterThoeny
Codev.SubversionBasedTWikiInstall	2011-08-03 - 18:41	PeterThoeny
TWiki.InstallationWithI18N	2011-01-04 - 04:56	PeterThoeny
TWiki.TWikiContributor	2010-06-26 - 04:27	PeterThoeny
TWiki.TWikiEditingShorthand	2010-06-13 - 06:48	PeterThoeny
Plugins.SpanishTWikiContrib	2009-04-10 - 21:18	PeterThoeny
Support.UpgradeTesting	2008-12-13 - 02:29	PeterThoeny
Support.CouldNotSendConfirmEmail	2008-09-02 - 05:54	PeterThoeny
Support.CouldNotSendConfirmationMail	2008-09-02 - 05:55	PeterThoeny
Support.ErrorOnUpgradingExtensions	2008-09-02 - 13:54	SeanCMorgan
Support.FirstTimeConfiguration	2008-09-02 - 05:51	PeterThoeny
Codev.HowToStartExtensionDevelopmentInSubversion	2008-08-20 - 22:28	KennethLavrsen
Support.HaveSupportToSubversionSVN	2008-08-19 - 07:08	PeterThoeny
Support.HowToExtractPartOfAFieldValue	2008-08-19 - 06:44	PeterThoeny
Codev.CreatePackagesForLanguages	2008-08-13 - 06:06	RichardDonkin
Codev.SpanishTranslation	2008-08-12 - 00:00	SebastianKlus
Codev.WhoAreTheTWikiCommunity	2008-08-10 - 18:03	GilmarSantosJr
Codev.SebastianKlusWouldLikeToCheckIn	2008-08-04 - 06:33	SebastianKlus
Support.HowToExtractMetaPreferenceData	2008-08-02 - 07:07	PeterThoeny
Support.WhereToUpdateDocumentation	2008-07-27 - 01:13	PeterThoeny
Support.PermissionError	2008-07-25 - 16:34	SebastianKlus
Support.WarningCouldnotsendconfirmation	2008-07-25 - 18:56	BillStafford
Support.BuildContribOnSVNInstall	2008-07-23 - 17:21	SebastianKlus
Support.ReplaceMishandlesTrailingZeroes	2008-07-23 - 22:00	SebastianKlus
Plugins.TopicTranslationsPluginDev	2008-07-15 - 11:28	AlexanderBreuer
Support.SearchErrorWithMoreThanOneWord	2008-07-09 - 13:08	JamesRJMorris
Codev.DocumentationTranslation	2008-06-19 - 20:34	SebastianKlus
Support.TWikiInSpanish	2008-06-05 - 15:53	SebastianKlus
Support.MigrationFromWindowsToUbuntu	2008-06-03 - 02:28	SebastianKlus
Codev.TranslationNote	2008-05-02 - 14:54	SebastianKlus
Codev.TranslationForm	2008-04-30 - 03:16	SebastianKlus
Codev.ChangesEnhancements	2008-04-28 - 13:14	CarloSchulz
Support.IllegalCharactersInFileName	2008-04-03 - 06:00	PeterThoeny
Support.PubFoldersWithSpecialCharacters	2008-04-03 - 05:54	PeterThoeny
Support.MailNotifyAbortsCantFindSetLibCfg	2008-02-12 - 22:52	HaraldJoerg
Support.InternalLinksWrongIn04x02x00WithTOC	2008-02-05 - 12:25	SebastianKlus

Questions and Comments

Good to see you apply for checkin.

I support your application and welcome you.

-- KennethLavrsen - 01 Aug 2008

Welcome! I've enabled your commit bit for Plugins

Love the work you're doing with the translations - but I htink svn is a better place for them

-- SvenDowideit - 01 Aug 2008

Hi guys, thanks for your confidence.

Regarding Sven's comment, one question:

1. Are you sure you enabled my commit bit? Because I just tried to commit to ../branches/DEVELOP/twikiplungs and also to ../branches/TWikiRelease04x02/twikiplugins but I am rejected with the following error:

root@ubuntu:/var/www/svn/twikiplugins# svn commit -m "Creating initial directory for SpanishTWikiContrib in twikiplugins"
Anmeldebereich: <http://svn.twiki.org:80> twiki.org Subversion Repository
Passwort für »root«: 
Anmeldebereich: <http://svn.twiki.org:80> twiki.org Subversion Repository
Benutzername: SebastianKlus
Passwort für »SebastianKlus«: 
Hinzufügen     SpanishTWikiContrib
svn: Übertragen fehlgeschlagen (Details folgen):
svn: CHECKOUT von »/svn/!svn/ver/11392/twiki/branches/DEVELOP/twikiplugins«: 403 Forbidden (http://svn.twiki.org)
root@ubuntu:/var/www/svn/twikiplugins# svn update
Revision 17273.

-- SebastianKlus - 02 Aug 2008

yes, I'm sure - you should be commiting to svn/trunk if you can point us to the docco that made you goto DEVELOP, i'll go fix-or-ate it. the TWikiRelease04x02 is locked down for changes that are related directly to the 4.2.x patch releases - so is core only - any other plugins you see there, you didn't actually see

-- SvenDowideit - 03 Aug 2008

Then it is a missunderstanding from my side.

There is no docu that refers to DEVELOP directly. But as commits to the trunk need an item number, I believed that this is part of the core area (and I did not apply for that) and as DEVELOP and the release branch were the nearest directories having a twikiplugins directory (I applied for that, although I already read that plugins are developed in the trunk), I tried it there.

So back to the question: If I want / shall check into the trunk, how do I get an item number? They are normally generated when a bug report is filed and the trigger scripts request them when commiting.

-- SebastianKlus - 03 Aug 2008

yup, anytime you want to commit, you must file a bug report - this gives us a tracking of changes, and a place to potentially discuss things, whereas the commit comment should contain both that item name, and what that commit is doing (in a more technical sense)

-- SvenDowideit - 03 Aug 2008

Thanks for all the help. Worked perfectly now. And the Contrib is in svn now

Regarding the topics in the Codev web, I wanted to let a copy of them there so that other people (like TWiki:Main.JuanLussich) could help me to check translations. But if there are any concerns, I get them out of there and work them exclusively in the Contrib and on svn. So that you do not get such long notification mails when I update my topics

-- SebastianKlus - 03 Aug 2008

I think it is a good idea to move them out of the Codev web. They are a bit in the way there.

If you keep on checking updates into SVN then it is easy for others to follow. Especially if Juan installs a TWiki as a SVN checkout.

-- KennethLavrsen - 03 Aug 2008

Weclome Sebastian to the dev team!

Yes, it makes sense to maintain the Spanish translation topics as a contrib package in SVN.

On web name, may be better to name it TWikiES instead of TWiki_ES? ManagingWebs#CreateNewWeb has this for web name selection: "The name must start with an upper case letter, followed by upper or lower case letters or numbers."

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Aug 2008

@Kenneth and Peter: Ok. So I will remove them within the next days from Codev and get them out of the way.

@Peter: I had it without the _ before. The thing is that with TWikiES, the web name gets interpreted at certain moments as a WikiWord and, as the topic does not exist, highlighted and with a question mark at the end (I think in the change/delete dialogue where the links to other topics are analyzed). This might confuse and therefore I spelled it out as TWiki_ES. In this composition, it is not interpreted as WikiWord. But from a visual point of view, I'd prefer TWikiES.

-- SebastianKlus - 04 Aug 2008