Contributing to Goobi.Production

You're welcome to contribute to the project! We are facing major refactoring demands so we like to see more Java experts hands-on coding. What you would have to do, is to create a personal branch of lp:goobi-production and propose it for merging as soon as your changes are ready. See the Launchpad/Bazaar documentation for this: https://help.launchpad.net/Code, http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/en/

I filed a new bug report regarding the missing script files under https://bugs.launchpad.net/goobi-production/+bug/784584 Please review it, subscribe to it and post any more missing files to the comments. As this is a critical bug for any release I'll fix it as soon as possible by providing sample script files. Thanks for raising the issue.

Regards,
Ralf

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> Behalf Of Jennie Fletcher
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> Subject: [Goobi-release] [Question #158024]: Contributing to
> Goobi.Production
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> New question #158024 on Goobi.Production:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/goobi-production/+question/158024
>
> I am a Java developer from Cambridge University Library and we are
> looking at potentially using Goobi.Production for some of our
> digitisation work.
>
> I have a lot of experience working with Java web applications and was
> wondering how I would go about becoming more involved in the
> development of Goobi, and possibly feedback any enhancements we make to
> the project.
>
> Also, I am currently in the process of installing a test installation
> of Goobi.Production (1.6 branch) and I seem to be missing some metadata
> and script files that are referenced from GoobiConfig.properties. I
> also wanted to check that this is the branch that's correct to use, and
> where might I be able to find these files (script_createDirUserHome.sh
> etc) - I can provide a full list of files if you need it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jennie Fletcher.
>
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If you want to develop Goobi, you have to do some things:

→ Install Bazaar version control system
→ Check out source code
→ Get it to run. You will need the servlet container Tomcat 6. For eclipse, see: http://wiki.goobi.org/index.php/Setting_up_Goobi.Production_as_a_Dynamic_Web_Project_in_Eclipse
→ Add a blue print to document the change you made to the software
→ Do a local commit to your source code (on your hard disk)
→ Upload it to your personal area in Launchpad
→ Add a link between blueprint and your local code branch
→ Submit a merge request

Just give it a try and on any questions, feel free to ask.