[Cuis-dev] Collecting a "Help Wanted" document - Re: Looking to help Cuis development

[Nicolás Papagna Maldonado]

Hi folks!

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:32 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Rubén, Folks,
>
> (below)
>
> On 3/26/2024 7:31 PM, Ruben Bohorquez via Cuis-dev wrote:
> > Hello! I'm currently enrolled in a class that uses mainly Cuis, and
> > they give us extra credits if we contribute to the development of
> > CuisUniversity. Since I do not currently have any specific idea as to
> > what to contribute, I figured I might as well ask the wider community
> > whether they need help with a particular project.
> >
> > I already have experience with Smalltalk (had an OOP class with the
> > same teacher before which also used Cuis), and I also contributed to
> > Cuis before. So, if anyone needs help with a feature, tests, or
> > anything really, do let me know!
>
> This is a question that gets asked from time to time. Maybe old timers
> could also want some interesting/useful problem to work on.
>
> I suggest that we collect a list of projects or areas where improvements
> would be good. We could host that in a .md document in the main repo, or
> perhaps a wiki page at GitHub. In any case, what follows is the first
> sketch I could come up with. Please answer with your own ideas, comments
> and corrections.
>

We could use GitHub projects as well!
We used it to track tasks in many projects and it worked just fine :)


>
> Rubén, feel fre to pick any!
>
>
> Ideas for helping Cuis
> =================
>
> Beginner level
> --------------------
> - Read the Cuis book. Understand every detail. Do every exercise.
> Suggest corrections and improvements.
> - Use Cuis. Play with it. Try every dev tool. Report on your experience.
> Write documentation.
> - Do your own version of the Spacewar! project. Handle it like a real
> project, evolving your own version of the code and publishing it at
> GitHub or somewhere. Report on your experience. Document your process.
> Suggest enhancements to tools.
> - Read the the stuff at
>
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/tree/master/Documentation
> . Suggest corrections and improvements.
> - Review www.cuis.st. Check consistency with
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev and
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis6-2
>
> Intermediate level
> -------------------------
> - Review / test / use Cuis packages related to Networking, Web clients,
> Web servers. Build toy examples using them. Report on the experience.
> Write documentation.
> - Review / test / use Cuis packages you find interesting. Build toy
> examples using them. Report on the experience. Write documentation.
> - Understand Morphic, and the Cuis specific aspects. Build a game.
> Something like Pac-Man for instance. Write documentation.
> - Review the pluggable GUI widgets in Cuis. Compare with other Smalltalk
> dialects. Compare with non-Smalltalk widget libraries and kits. What is
> missing?
>
> Advanced level
> ----------------------
> - Compare the various possible approaches to building web servers and
> web clients. Write documentation.
> - Take the SVG package and turn it into and end user Vector Graphics
> designer application. Like a baby Inkscape.
> - Review and update Sound and MIDI. Build a small music instrument.
> - Build something like the old PhotoSqueak based on Cuis ImageProcessing
> package.
> - Implement new GUI widgets for Cuis. A dropdown list, for instance. Or
> a multi column l
> - Find a way to assess and describe which community packages work with
> each Cuis release (6.2, 6.3)
> - Review and clean or update as needed the packages included in the main
> repo
> - Check and correct or eliminate CorePackages.pck.st and
> AllPackages.pck.st
> - Check and correct AdditionalPackagesForCuis.md. Assess quality and
> upToDate-ness.ist.
>
> Advanced+ level
> -----------------------
> - Design and build a framework for extensible and user configurable tool
> menus and keyboard shortcuts
> - Ephemerons (VM support is there)
> - Non-blocking FFI (VM suppoort is there)
> - Unicode collation
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
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Nicolás Papagna
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