Improving Tasks 2004-10-22 - By Rhino
Thank you! I hadn't gotten to those pages yet; they look like they are going
to be very helpful in understanding the open source development process.
Rhino
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Davidson" <jeffmdavidson@(protected)>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <user@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: Improving Tasks
I think this page should answer all your questions:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html
Check out the "Contribute Code or Documentation Patches" section, in
particular.
Regards,
~Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Rhino [mailto:rhino1@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 6:36 AM
To: ant-user
Subject: Improving Tasks
I'm starting to get the hang of Ant now and am starting to think about
developing some tasks to increase what it can do.
However, before I start developing entirely new tasks, I thought I might
take a whack at improving a few existing tasks. One improvement I'm thinking
about involves the core task <input>. I'd like to enhance it in a couple of
ways:
1. Provide for a masked input field so that it could be used to prompt for a
password that would remain unreadable to anyone looking over the users
shoulder. (I envision adding a 'mask="true"' parameter to make that possible
with the default for 'mask' being 'false'.)
2. I'm thinking about adding the capability of having a radio button group
and/or drop down lists so that there are some additional ways for users to
provide input.
The problem here is that I haven't any real idea how to go about this. How
would I get my hands on the source code for the existing task without
stepping on anyone's toes? Would my enhancements have to be approved in
advance or would I submit them and then go through some kind of voting
process by Ant users with my changes discarded if I didn't "win" the vote?
What testing would I have to do to satisfy the Ant community that my code
was clean enough to implement?
Or should I develop an entirely new task with the intent of deprecating
<input> and replacing it with my 'better' task (assuming I can get it to
work ;-)?
By the way, is this the right list for these sorts of questions or should I
be asking on the developers list?
Rhino
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it
so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to
make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C.A.R.
Hoare
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