We are thinking about significant changes to the OpenNTF.Org web site, both in terms of UI and functionality.
One goal is to provide version control systems on OpenNTF. Right now projects with multiple owners can use SVN repositories on OpenNTF. We'd like to extend this and also offer Git and Mercurial repositories for all projects.
Another goal is to update the project management UI. In this context Declan Lynch has promoted Redmine for a long time. Redmine is an open source project management application. OpenNTF project owners could benefit from it since, for example, each project can have it's own Wiki and it's own forums. Furthermore Git and Mercurial can be integrated in Redmine.
We'd also like to extend the reach and be present in other established communities. That's why we ask XPages developers to use StackOverflow and that's why we integrated questions from StackOverflow on XPages.info. Another established and growing community especially for open source is GitHub with over 4 million open source repositories. We'd like XPages developers to be able to use GitHub also as version control system for OpenNTF projects. Redmine supports integrating projects from GitHub (with some manual configuration).
Below is a deck describing some of these ideas in more details. Please note that none of this has been committed yet.
There are some technical questions that we need to figure out first. Especially the SSO between Domino and the Ruby on Rails/Apache based Redmine is a challenge. Declan and Bruce found some starting points (here and here) but we'd appreciate help from the community.
There is also plenty of other work. Please contact us if you are interested in implementing certain parts.
On OpenNTF: OSnippets Application to share Code Snippets and Blog Entries
Wed, May 22nd 2013 1:39a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Oliver Busse has
contributed a project called OSnippets
Template.
The application can be used by developers
to easily share code snippets and publish blog entries. The application
uses the Twitter
Bootstrap framework.
You can try a live
version of the application or
watch the video
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On OpenNTF: Android App for IBM Domino Discussion Applications
Tue, May 21st 2013 3:07a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Jens Bruntt has
contributed a project called DomDisc
for Android.
The project contains a native Android
app that allows access from Android based smartphones and tablets to Domino
discussion applications. The project uses the Domino
Data Services to replicate the
data so that the app can even be used offline.
You can try the app by inst [read] Keywords: domino
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On OpenNTF: XPages Document Locker Managed Bean
Fri, May 17th 2013 12:40a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Fredrik Norling
has contributed a project called XPage
Document Locker.
The project includes a managed bean
with methods to lock and unlock documents. The mechanism works if all users
access the same replica. The documents are not physically locked but instead
a programming convention is used to check whether documents are locked
before some [read] Keywords: ibm
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On OpenNTF: Extended FilteringSelected XPages Control
Thu, May 16th 2013 3:10a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Ferry Kranenburg
has contributed a project called XPages
FilteringSelected Extended.
The project includes a control which
extends the FilteringSelected control which comes with the XPages Extension
Library. Watch the video
to see the control in action. Below is Ferry's description:
"This widget adds some nice features
to the dojo Filt [read] Keywords: ibm
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Interview with Bruce Elgort about OpenNTF
Mon, May 13th 2013 1:44a Niklas Heidloff Celia Hamilton from socialbiz User Group
interviewed
Bruce Elgort, the chair of OpenNTF, about several OpenNTF related topics.
Listen to the podcast.
Celia's description: "Bruce Elgort
called in to SocialBiz to discuss his work with OpenNTF.org, XSnippets.info,
Collaboration Today, and XPages.info. Take a listen to find out what Bruce's
favorite XSnippet is and which XSnippets are the most popular overall.
Also, get info from Bruce on OpenNTF.org's Appathon contest that
is [read] Keywords: collaboration
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OpenNTF Webinar Replay has been published
Wed, May 8th 2013 12:54a Niklas Heidloff Thanks to everyone who attended our first webinar "OpenNTF - The IBM Collaboration Solutions App Dev Community" yesterday.
If you missed it, you can watch the video, listen to the audio or read the slides.
On 06/03/13 David Leedy and Mark Roden will present in the next webinar "Get Started with XPages". Don't miss it! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Release of the Trouble Ticket Application
Tue, May 7th 2013 1:31a Niklas Heidloff In my IBM Connect session I used a trouble ticket application as example to show how to access IBM Connections from XPages and to show how to put XPages in the Embedded Experience in Connections, Notes and iNotes.
My colleague Yun Zhi Lin has now created an open source version of this application and documented how to set up it up. There is a version for IBM Domino 8.5.3 and another one for 9.0 which uses the new 'send mail' action. Both versions use the XPages Social Enabler which comes w [read] Keywords: connections
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On OpenNTF: Dynamically compiled XPages
Tue, May 7th 2013 12:18a Niklas Heidloff Philippe Riand has published a new version
of the XPages
Bazaar which includes functionality
to execute XPages that have been developed outside of IBM Domino Designer.
Below is Phil's description.
"This release features a new capability
that will make my fellow hackers curious: the ability to dynamically compile
Java code on the server, and inject the resulting class in a classloader.
Then you follow me, it is the foundation for dynamic pages, including XPages.
It even provides a [read] Keywords: domino
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Attend the first OpenNTF Webinar on Tuesday
Mon, May 6th 2013 12:16a Niklas Heidloff On Tuesday 05/07 at 10:00 AM EST the
first OpenNTF webinar will take place where we'll describe OpenNTF itself.
Find the meeting information on http://webinars.openntf.org.
No registration is required.
Agenda:
1. Welcome
2. OpenNTF Overview
3. XSnippets
4. Collaboration Today and XPages.info
5. Contests
5a. Demo: Forms'n Views
6. Intellectual Property
7. Get engaged [read] Keywords: collaboration
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