Who am I?

Hi I'm Vernon Lyon - I work for Yahoo Europe in web tools development. I've created the QuickMenuSkin and would like to maintain it in SVN.

What do I want?

Write access to SVN for the following branches:

Not sure which branches yet, but I have created 1 skin and 1 plugin so far... And I've had a look at a way to improve the _renderWikiWord handler in the TWiki code. SteffenPoulsen said he has moved my skin into SVN already, I guess I'd like to be able to write to it

What can I do?

I'm a skilled perl & mod_perl developer with a lot of experience in Javascript, HTML, Unix, etc...

Why do I want to do it?

I enjoy coding and contributing to open-source. Here at Yahoo we use TWiki a lot and since I do a lot of work on it, I may as well share my work.

Topics I have contributed to.

Topic	Last Modified	Last Editor
TWikiUsers	2024-03-28 - 12:59	Main.admin
WebStatisticsOld	2023-10-03 - 18:13	Main.guest
WebNotify	2020-12-21 - 10:02	SopanShewale
TWikiCommunityGroup	2014-04-22 - 22:34	PeterThoeny
DevelopBranchGroup	2013-10-18 - 07:59	PeterThoeny
BuildContribDev	2010-12-31 - 21:34	Main.unknown
TWikiContributor	2010-06-26 - 04:27	PeterThoeny
VernonLyon	2008-12-25 - 23:32	Main.unknown
QuickMenuSkin	2008-12-10 - 13:16	SopanShewale
QuickMenuSkinDev	2008-10-14 - 10:08	Main.unknown
QuickMenuSkinDevArchive	2008-02-25 - 17:03	Main.unknown
MikkoLaaksoWouldLikeToCheckIn	2007-08-10 - 08:35	Main.unknown
AddBugsContribActionsToQuickMenuSkin	2006-08-16 - 05:19	PeterThoeny
LostLogoutLink	2006-07-17 - 10:46	Main.unknown
TWikiPluginsDotPm	2006-07-11 - 17:52	PeterThoeny
UrlForLogout	2006-06-29 - 22:16	Main.unknown
VernonLyonWouldLikeToCheckIn	2006-06-20 - 09:40	Main.unknown

Questions and Comments:

You need access to the TWikiRelease04x00 branch, twikiplugins subdirectory then. (There is also a twikiplugins in DEVELOP branch but it is meant for experimental plugins that will only work in a far future release of TWiki.)

And naturally I support an application from a plugin contributor.

-- KennethLavrsen - 14 Jun 2006

I always wondered what things you were doing with TWiki in Yahoo - looking forward to learn more about this

-- SteffenPoulsen - 14 Jun 2006

Welcome to the TWikiCommunity and the fun TWiki extension development! Sven will probably soon give you access to the relevant SVN branch. I added you to the TWikiCommunityGroup, please review the text on that topic and use the privileges responsibility.

-- PeterThoeny - 14 Jun 2006

I tried to commit changes to my skin in SVN, but I get a pre-commit error: "No Bug item in log message" /svn/twiki/branches/TWikiRelease04x00/twikiplugins/QuickMenuSkin Am I doing something wrong? I've spent a few hours reading through docs to get this working, but no luck.

-- VernonLyon - 19 Jun 2006

You need to prepend your commit message with the syntax Itemxxx:, this is the bug item in Bugs web.

-- ArthurClemens - 19 Jun 2006

Does that mean that I first have to submit a bug before I can commit changes? Seems silly since I'm not fixing a bug, I'm just adding functionality and cleaning up code. Is this the recommended right way of doing things? Are there any docs/guidelines on how we should be updating SVN?

-- VernonLyon - 20 Jun 2006

Yes, in order to be able to track things properly this is the way we currently work. The reason for the terminology "Bugs" is historic, you shouldn't pay it that much attention.

For plugins you can re-use the same item over time if you prefer, and just label the item in a generic way (i.e. "Updates for QuickMenuSkin"). Simply leave it open between checkins.

The "ItemXXXX" mechanism is meant for tracking which items are releasable in relation to the TWiki code, but as the (core) plugins happen to live so relatively "close by", they inherit a bit of this "overhead" unfortunately.

We could do more on the docs guidelines, currently the best doc is what you will find in the form you get when you edit an item.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 20 Jun 2006

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