Re: New Roadmap?

["Fred Morcos" <fred morcos gmail com>]

I looked around and found an interesting topic: Auto-layouting. It
seems like it's only a discussion so far, has any work been done in
this field for Dia? Would it be welcome even if not based on Dot (from
Graphviz)?

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>  welcome to Dia development ;-)
>
>  Am 11.05.2008 15:48, Fred Morcos schrieb:
>
> > Dear All,
>  >
>  > I am a bachelor student starting my thesis in two weeks and I decided
>  > to contribute to Dia. Note that I have never been involved in any open
>  > source project before. I would like to ask if there is a newer roadmap
>  > than the one on http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/.
>  There is something at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Developers but that is
>  quite informal. Basically there is no real roadmap, instead stuff gets done
>  if someone finds the time to do it ;)
>
>  A big pool of ideas are the enhancement requests filed in bugzilla, see:
>  
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Other&product=dia&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_severity=enhancement&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
>
>
>  > Also, what kind of code contributions are accepted into Dia?
>  We take patches for all areas of Dia:
>   - core, objects and plug-ins written in C
>   - custom shapes defined in XML (an svg dialect)
>   - new XSLT 'scripts'
>   - new plug-ins written in Python
>   - documentation usually in docbook format
>
>
>  > Are there any specific
>  > subjects or fields where work is needed to be done and that would fit
>  > for a bachelor thesis?
>  >
>  I don't know the criterias for bachelor thesis work, but there are tasks of
>  all sizes. Some things could be done entirely as plug-ins, like:
>
>   * OpenDocument import / export
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474505
>
>   * XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) support
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95548
>
>  other stuff would also require work on the core
>
>   * Auto relayout diagrams
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84624
>
>   * add ability to rotate objects
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321820
>
>   * cannot copy and paste dia diagram outside the dia application
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336304
>
>  and a lot more ...
>
>  Have fun with Dia,
>         Hans
>
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>  get along without it.                -- Dilbert
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Fred Morcos
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