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I'd like to provide an Eclipse feature -- How difficult will that be? [message #1731359]

Wed, 04 May 2016 11:48

Eclipse User

Hi,

There is a feature I would like to see in Eclipse: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=39699
However the issue is old and no one seems to be working on it. So it might be up to me?

How difficult would that be for a newbie? I am quite familiar with Java and using Eclipse, but I am hardly familiar with plugin or platform development. And I have no idea about the development cycle of Eclipse. So I'd have to learn quite a lot, provide good quality code and tests and so on. Can this be estimated?

Also, where would I best brain storm / discuss / plan the feature? In the issue tracker itself?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: I'd like to provide an Eclipse feature -- How difficult will that be? [message #1731487 is a reply to message #1731359]

Fri, 06 May 2016 00:13

Eclipse User

Hi Mark. It sounds like a good opportunity to get involved.

The best place to brainstorm or ask questions is on the Bugzilla record itself.

There is help for setting up your development environment here:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute

And specific help on contributing to JDT here:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_UI/How_to_Contribute

A lot of the developers have been hanging out on our MatterMost instance; that should be a good source of help if you run into problems.

https://mattermost-test.eclipse.org/eclipse/channels/platform

HTH,

Wayne

Re: I'd like to provide an Eclipse feature -- How difficult will that be? [message #1731515 is a reply to message #1731487]

Fri, 06 May 2016 07:27

Eclipse User

Thanks Wayne, that helps.

By now I have an environment running and I hacked some dirty code into Javadoc View and see the effects. Took me roughly 1 day.
Learnings so far:

Really read the How-to pages. I used a PDT version of eclipse first and not the latest "I-version" as mentioned on the How-to page. Doesn't work.
I still had some setup issues not mentioned on the How-to page. Quickfix helped.
Plug-In Spy! This is a great tool if you don't know your way around.

My next task (not related to the bug 39699) is to figure out how to add navigation (ctrl+click / F3) from text inside comments to some resource. Any pointers?

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