[Geoserver-devel] New developer member

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Hello everyone,

My name is Alexandru MECA and I intend to be involved as a volunteer developer on GeoServer project.

I am new on Java technologies but I am a senior developer full stack on .NET Framework.

So, I need someone, from this group, to dive me in the development workflow. Hope exists a former member for new contributors.

Skype: meka_alex

I am glad to contribute in such a great project!

Thank you,

Best regards,
Alexandru MECA

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Hi Alexandru,
to get started you might want to check out the developer manual:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/

More importantly, GeoServer is often just “protocol glue” on top of facilities provided by GeoTools,
so to be proficient with GeoServer you first need to know GeoTools well.
Luckily, unlike GeoServer, GeoTools has a nice set of tutorials and docs for developers (in GeoServer
it’s mostly “look at the code and learn”):

http://docs.geotools.org/

Once you are proficient with GeoTools you can go back to GeoServer and start looking at doing
some bug fixing. That’s actually how I got started 10 years ago, when Chris Holmes hired me he
had me to do only bug fixing for one month long, full time, before moving to anything else
(I was already a GeoTools developer, so that part was covered).

Hope this helps!

Cheers
Andrea

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On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:43 AM, meca alex via Geoserver-devel <geoserver-devel@anonymised.comorge.net> wrote:

Hello everyone,

My name is Alexandru MECA and I intend to be involved as a volunteer developer on GeoServer project.

I am new on Java technologies but I am a senior developer full stack on .NET Framework.

So, I need someone, from this group, to dive me in the development workflow. Hope exists a former member for new contributors.

Skype: meka_alex

I am glad to contribute in such a great project!

Thank you,

Best regards,
Alexandru MECA

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Andrea Aime

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Andrea, thank you.

I’ll follow your recommended road map starting with development docs for GeoTools first.

Keep in touch.

Best regards,
Meca Alexandru

On Thursday, September 7, 2017, 11:47:15 AM GMT+3, Andrea Aime andrea.aime@anonymised.com wrote:

Hi Alexandru,
to get started you might want to check out the developer manual:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/

More importantly, GeoServer is often just “protocol glue” on top of facilities provided by GeoTools,
so to be proficient with GeoServer you first need to know GeoTools well.
Luckily, unlike GeoServer, GeoTools has a nice set of tutorials and docs for developers (in GeoServer
it’s mostly “look at the code and learn”):

http://docs.geotools.org/

Once you are proficient with GeoTools you can go back to GeoServer and start looking at doing
some bug fixing. That’s actually how I got started 10 years ago, when Chris Holmes hired me he
had me to do only bug fixing for one month long, full time, before moving to anything else
(I was already a GeoTools developer, so that part was covered).

Hope this helps!

Cheers
Andrea

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:43 AM, meca alex via Geoserver-devel <geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

Hello everyone,

My name is Alexandru MECA and I intend to be involved as a volunteer developer on GeoServer project.

I am new on Java technologies but I am a senior developer full stack on .NET Framework.

So, I need someone, from this group, to dive me in the development workflow. Hope exists a former member for new contributors.

Skype: meka_alex

I am glad to contribute in such a great project!

Thank you,

Best regards,
Alexandru MECA

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Regards,

Andrea Aime

==
GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://goo.gl/it488V for more information.

Ing. Andrea Aime
@geowolf
Technical Lead

GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via di Montramito 3/A
55054 Massarosa (LU)
phone: +39 0584 962313
fax: +39 0584 1660272
mob: +39 339 8844549

http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it

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The information in this message and/or attachments, is intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s) and may be confidential or proprietary in nature or covered by the provisions of privacy act (Legislative Decree June, 30 2003, no.196 - Italy’s New Data Protection Code).Any use not in accord with its purpose, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or either dissemination, either whole or partial, is strictly forbidden except previous formal approval of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please contact immediately the sender by telephone, fax or e-mail and delete the information in this message that has been received in error. The sender does not give any warranty or accept liability as the content, accuracy or completeness of sent messages and accepts no responsibility for changes made after they were sent or for other risks which arise as a result of e-mail transmission, viruses, etc.

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Welcome, Alexandru.

If you have a .NET background, I am going to guess that you are developing on Windows. We are especially looking for Windows developers because we have no active core Windows developers and several reports of the build failing on Windows that we are unable fix because core developers are on Ubuntu, Debian, and MacOS. If you have trouble building on Windows, it might not be your fault. You might need to build with -DskipTests to get started. You might also find an Ubuntu virtual machine useful; any of your pull requests will be tested with Travis CI using Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty).

GeoSolutions have a Windows build server:
http://winbuild.geo-solutions.it/jenkins/

These important builds are failing:
http://winbuild.geo-solutions.it/jenkins/job/GeoTools-Master/
http://winbuild.geo-solutions.it/jenkins/job/GeoServer-Master/

If we can get the build working on Windows again, it would give us confidence that GeoServer works properly on Windows. You might be in a position to be of great assistance to us. We are here to help.

Kind regards,
Ben.

On 07/09/17 20:47, Andrea Aime wrote:

Hi Alexandru,
to get started you might want to check out the developer manual:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/

More importantly, GeoServer is often just "protocol glue" on top of
facilities provided by GeoTools,
so to be proficient with GeoServer you first need to know GeoTools well.
Luckily, unlike GeoServer, GeoTools has a nice set of tutorials and docs
for developers (in GeoServer
it's mostly "look at the code and learn"):

http://docs.geotools.org/

Once you are proficient with GeoTools you can go back to GeoServer and
start looking at doing
some bug fixing. That's actually how I got started 10 years ago, when Chris
Holmes hired me he
had me to do only bug fixing for one month long, full time, before moving
to anything else
(I was already a GeoTools developer, so that part was covered).

Hope this helps!

Cheers
Andrea

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:43 AM, meca alex via Geoserver-devel <
geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

Hello everyone,

My name is Alexandru MECA and I intend to be involved as a volunteer
developer on GeoServer project.

I am new on Java technologies but I am a senior developer full stack on
.NET Framework.

So, I need someone, from this group, to dive me in the development
workflow. Hope exists a former member for new contributors.

Skype: meka_alex

I am glad to contribute in such a great project!

Thank you,

Best regards,
Alexandru MECA

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Hello Ben and thank you,

I’ll be glad to help.

After work I’ll take a look at the Jenkins build machines for Windows to see how can I help.

Have a nice day,
Meca Alexandru

On Friday, September 8, 2017, 10:27:08 AM GMT+3, Ben Caradoc-Davies ben@anonymised.com wrote:

Welcome, Alexandru.

If you have a .NET background, I am going to guess that you are
developing on Windows. We are especially looking for Windows developers
because we have no active core Windows developers and several reports of
the build failing on Windows that we are unable fix because core
developers are on Ubuntu, Debian, and MacOS. If you have trouble
building on Windows, it might not be your fault. You might need to build
with -DskipTests to get started. You might also find an Ubuntu virtual
machine useful; any of your pull requests will be tested with Travis CI
using Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty).

GeoSolutions have a Windows build server:
http://winbuild.geo-solutions.it/jenkins/

These important builds are failing:
http://winbuild.geo-solutions.it/jenkins/job/GeoTools-Master/
http://winbuild.geo-solutions.it/jenkins/job/GeoServer-Master/

If we can get the build working on Windows again, it would give us
confidence that GeoServer works properly on Windows. You might be in a
position to be of great assistance to us. We are here to help.

Kind regards,
Ben.

On 07/09/17 20:47, Andrea Aime wrote:

Hi Alexandru,
to get started you might want to check out the developer manual:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/

More importantly, GeoServer is often just “protocol glue” on top of
facilities provided by GeoTools,
so to be proficient with GeoServer you first need to know GeoTools well.
Luckily, unlike GeoServer, GeoTools has a nice set of tutorials and docs
for developers (in GeoServer
it’s mostly “look at the code and learn”):

http://docs.geotools.org/

Once you are proficient with GeoTools you can go back to GeoServer and
start looking at doing
some bug fixing. That’s actually how I got started 10 years ago, when Chris
Holmes hired me he
had me to do only bug fixing for one month long, full time, before moving
to anything else
(I was already a GeoTools developer, so that part was covered).

Hope this helps!

Cheers
Andrea

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:43 AM, meca alex via Geoserver-devel <
geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

Hello everyone,

My name is Alexandru MECA and I intend to be involved as a volunteer
developer on GeoServer project.

I am new on Java technologies but I am a senior developer full stack on
.NET Framework.

So, I need someone, from this group, to dive me in the development
workflow. Hope exists a former member for new contributors.

Skype: meka_alex

I am glad to contribute in such a great project!

Thank you,

Best regards,
Alexandru MECA

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Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand