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| + | The Scout documentation has been moved to https://eclipsescout.github.io/. |
| − | == The Eclipse Scout Book ==
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| − | The Eclipse Scout Book is the attempt to significantly improve the state of the documentation of the Eclipse Scout framework.
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| − | The goal of this effort is to have written a substantial part of the book by Kepler release date (June 2013 - the content of the book will target Scout 3.9)
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| − | To allow for participation by the community the book will be written in the open from it's very first version (as of now (December 4th 2012) there is hardly more than the proposed table of contents with some pointers to existing forum entries.
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| − | == Repository and Download ==
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| − | The current repository is located at the following [https://github.com/BSI-Business-Systems-Integration-AG/scoutbook github repository].
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| − | There is also a continuous integration environment setup at [http://www.bsiag.com/eclipse BSI] that is building the book on a regular basis. To check for the current state of the book you may visit [http://tools.bsiag.com/scoutbook/ tools.bsiag.com/scoutbook/]
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| − | Each build will create a directory with the following structure
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| − | yyyy-mm-dd_hh_MM-SS
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| − | epub
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| − | book.epub
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| − | html
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| − | book.zip (all files in a single zip)
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| − | book.html (main html file for online browsing)
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| − | ... many more files
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| − | pdf
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| − | book.pdf
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| − | The most recent copies of the Scout book are available from directory ''latest'':
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| − | * [http://tools.bsiag.com/scoutbook/latest/html/book.html html pages]
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| − | * [http://tools.bsiag.com/scoutbook/latest/pdf/book.pdf pdf file]
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| − | * [http://tools.bsiag.com/scoutbook/latest/html/book.zip zip file (html)]
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| − | * [http://tools.bsiag.com/scoutbook/latest/epub/book.epub epub file]
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| − | == Licencing Terms for Contributions ==
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| − | If you intend to contribute to the Scout book, please note that only material will be accepted, that is explicitely provided under the ''Creative Commons (CC-BY)''/"Eclipse Public Licence (EPL)" terms described below.
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| − | Text and illustrations will be published according to [http://tools.bsiag.com/scoutbook/latest/html/bookap1.html Appendix A "Copyright"] of the book. Specifically the following text:
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| − | This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view a copy of this li-
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| − | cense, visit [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/]
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| − | or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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| − | Code snippets should only be referenced in the book from complete and working applications. In order to encourage copy/paste of code provided in the book your code needs to be released under the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 ("EPL"). A copy of the EPL is available at [http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html].
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| − | == Scout Book Contribution Workflow ==
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| − | The chosen contribution model for the Scout book is nicely summarized in chapter [http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows#Integration-Manager-Workflow 5.1 Distributed Git - Distributed Workflows] of the book [http://git-scm.com/book Pro Git].
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| − | As Github provides public repositories for free and allows for efficient communication between contributors and committers this is setup we will use for the first edition of the Scout book.
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| − | The illusatration below (copied from [http://git-scm.com/book Pro Git]) illustrates the setup we will create.
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| − | [[Image:Scoutbook_git_repos_setup.png]]
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| − | Overview for the Scout book contribution workflow
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| − | # Set up you Github account
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| − | # Fork the Scout book and clone it to your local repository
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| − | # Build the Scout book locally
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| − | # Create a branch for your contribution
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| − | # <font style="background-color: yellow">Describe your planned contribution including approx size and content</font>
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| − | # <font style="background-color: yellow">Open a pull requestand explicitly express your acceptance of the licencing terms</font>
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| − | # Do the writing/coding/illustrating
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| − | # Regularly interact to make sure your contribution will find its way into the Scout book
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| − | The contribution workflow outlined above is explained step-by-step in the reminder of this article. It would be great if you would find the time to contribute to the Scout book and help us to foster a healthy and growing community around Eclipse Scout.
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| − | == Setting Things Up ==
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| − | === Create your Github Account ===
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| − | In case you don't yet have a Github account, this is your first step. The text below provides a quick overview. Some more details are provided
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| − | # Browsing to the [https://github.com/signup/free sign up page]"
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| − | ## The account ''matthiaszimmermanntest'' is used in the examples below
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| − | # Install git on your local computer according to [https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git GitHub help]
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| − | ## Installing git using the standard options in all installation steps
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| − | ## This should provide two local applications: GitHub and GitShell: [[Image:Github_gitshell_local.png]]
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| − | === Fork the Book Project ===
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| − | # Glance over the [https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo github forking procedure]
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| − | # Log into your github account
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| − | # Search for the ''scoutbook project''. Once you have found the book project:
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| − | # Click on the fork button (as shown in the picture below). [[Image:Fork_book_project.png]]
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| − | With the above command you created the light green ''developer public'' repository according to the illustration provided [http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows#Integration-Manager-Workflow here].
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| − | === Login and Default Shell ===
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| − | Log into your local GitHub app. The blue icon: [[Image:Github_gitshell_local.png]]
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| − | [[Image:Signing_in_on_local_machine.png ]]
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| − | For the explanation below, we set ''Git Bash'' as our default shell. This can be done in the GitHub app using menu '''tools''', and then '''options''' in the section '''default shell'''.
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| − | === Local Repository and Cloning ===
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| − | Open the GitShell. The black icon: [[Image:Github_gitshell_local.png]]
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| − | Create a target directory in the shell and switch into it
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github
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| − | $ <font style="color:blue">mkdir matthiaszimmermanntest</font>
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github
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| − | $ <font style="color:blue">cd matthiaszimmermanntest/</font>
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| − | Clone the fork into your local repository
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github/matthiaszimmermanntest
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| − | $ <font style="color:blue">git clone https://github.com/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook.git</font>
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| − | Cloning into 'scoutbook'...
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| − | remote: Counting objects: 568, done.
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| − | remote: Compressing objects: 100% (263/263), done.
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| − | Receiving objects: 85remote: Total 568 (delta 157), reused 560 (delta 149)
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| − | Receiving objects: 100% (568/568), 450.77 KiB | 198 KiB/s, done.
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| − | Resolving deltas: 100% (157/157), done.
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| − | You can copy the link for the ''git clone'' command from your github account
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| − | [[Image:Copy_git_link.png]]
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| − | Then, verify the content
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github/matthiaszimmermanntest
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| − | $ <font style="color:blue">cd scoutbook/</font>
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook (master)
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| − | $ <font style="color:blue">ls -l</font>
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| − | total 2.0k
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| − | -rw-r--r-- 1 mzi Administ 132 Nov 29 22:04 README.textile
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| − | drwxr-xr-x 4 mzi Administ 0 Nov 29 22:04 code/
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| − | -rw-r--r-- 1 mzi Administ 2.5k Nov 29 22:04 makefile
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| − | drwxr-xr-x 5 mzi Administ 0 Nov 29 22:04 out/
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| − | drwxr-xr-x 26 mzi Administ 0 Nov 29 22:04 tex/
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| − | With the above cloning operation you have added the dark green repository ''developer private'', according to the illustration provided [http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows#Integration-Manager-Workflow here].
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| − | === Linking with the "Blessed" Repository ===
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| − | This step adds a link of your local repository to the remote Scout book (that you forked previously).
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook (master)
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| − | $ git remote add upstream git@github.com:BSI-Business-Systems-Integration-AG/scoutbook.git
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| − | With the above command you created the gray arrow from the ''blessed repository'' to your local repository according to the illustration provided [http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows#Integration-Manager-Workflow here].
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| − | Now, list your remotes for verification. That should look similar to the output below:
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook (master)
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| − | $ git remote -v
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| − | origin https://github.com/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook.git (fetch)
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| − | origin https://github.com/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook.git (push)
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| − | upstream git@github.com:BSI-Business-Systems-Integration-AG/scoutbook.git (fetch)
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| − | upstream git@github.com:BSI-Business-Systems-Integration-AG/scoutbook.git (push)
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| − | === Building the Book Locally ===
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| − | This section holds the necessary installation/setup that is required to build the book out of the sources.
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| − | It is recommended (but not strictly necessary) to build the book on your own machine to verify your contribution does not break the build. To do this you will need working installations of the following programs
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| − | * latex (for PDF and HTML version)
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| − | * calibre (for creation and viewing of EPUB version)
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| − | * make (for building the book using a make file)
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| − | * zip/unzip (for packaging of the HTML version into a single zip file)
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| − | In the sections below, necessary download and installation steps of a working setup are described for Windows (if you have a working setup for Mac or Linux, please consider to amend a corresponding section.
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| − | ==== Windows Installation ====
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| − | For Windows, please follow the steps indicated below:
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| − | * Download and install LaTeX
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| − | ** visit [http://miktex.org/download (basic-miktex-2.9.4521-x64)]
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| − | ** download the installer file
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| − | ** execute the installer file and take note of the installation path (you will later need to adapt the makefile)
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| − | * Download and install Calibre
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| − | ** visit [http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows (calibre version 0.9.5)]
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| − | ** download the installer file
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| − | ** execute the installer file and take note of the installation path (you will later need to adapt the makefile)
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| − | * Download and install make
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| − | ** visit [http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=make (GNU Make 3.82)]
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| − | ** download the executable and put it into a folder of your preferences
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| − | * Download and install 7-Zip
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| − | ** visit [http://www.7-zip.org/ (7-Zip)]
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| − | ** download the installer file
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| − | ** execute the installer file and take note of the installation path (you will later need to adapt the makefile)
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| − | ==== Mac Installation (TODO) ====
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| − | ==== Linux Installation (TODO) ====
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| − | ==== Fixing "makefile" ====
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| − | Most likely, you will need to update the paths in your [https://github.com/matthiaszimmermann/scoutbook/blob/master/makefile makefile] to the
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| − | executable files from your local installation.
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| − | Specifically, the following variables in the ''makefile'' need to be adjusted according to your local setup:
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| − | * BIN
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| − | * LATEXROOT
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| − | * EBOOKCONVERT
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| − | * ZIP
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| − | * UNZIP
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| − | * COPY
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| − | There might be some other commands that don't work cross platform out of the box. If you are on a mac/linux box you might need to replace the following os-commands in the makefile
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| − | * rmdir
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| − | * mkdir
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| − | * del
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| − | ==== "make" the Book ====
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| − | Building the book is done using ''make'' in the main folder of your local book repository (make sure to edit the makefile in the root path of the git repository to account for the installation paths of the downloaded software). To create the pdf version of the book use
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| − | $ make pdf
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| − | The complete sequence of commands to generate all three output formats is
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| − | make clean
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| − | make pdf
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| − | The output will then be moved to the following locations
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| − | out\pdf\book.pdf
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| − | out\html\book.zip (containing the html and other necessary files)
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| − | out\epub\book.epub
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| − | == Create a Topic Branch ==
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| − | === Sync with the "Blessed Repository" ===
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| − | Before you create a new topic-branch it is recommended that you get up to date with the ''upstream'' book. For this, switch to your local master branch an pull in the upstream changes.
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| − | $ checkout master
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| − | $ git pull upstream master
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| − | Next, bring you public repository up to date
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook (master)
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| − | $ git push origin master
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| − | === Create your Local Branch ===
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| − | Now you can create your topic branch on the up-to-date local master branch as follows:
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| − | $ git branch matthiaszimmermanntest-client_notification
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| − | $ git checkout matthiaszimmermanntest-client_notification
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| − | Please use the following naming scheme for your topic branches <githubuser-meaningful_contribution_name>. Managing pull requests will get significantly simpler (In the example above ''matthiaszimmermanntest'' is contributing the material to describe the ''client_notification'' mechanism of Scout.
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| − | See [https://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/wiki/Topic-Branches here] to read more about topic branches. The first two sections are relevant in this context (instead of first branching and then checking out the two commands are folded into a single one: git checkout -b <branchname>).
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| − | == Work on your Contribution ==
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| − | When you have checked out your topic branch you can start to add and edit the files needed for your contribution.
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| − | === Source Organisation ===
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| − | Do your writing in the latex source files, and your coding in the java codefiles. Whenever you need to include some code snippets in your text, please do this by reference only using the [ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf Listings] package. Do not put code directly into the latex sources.
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| − | This setup helps to ensure that all code snippets come from real projects, that actually compile and run using the described version of Eclipse Scout.
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| − | The latex and scout sources are roughly organized as follows:
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| − | helloworld
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| − | Introduction
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| − | Introduction.tex
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| − | book.tex (the books' root tex)
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| − | === An Example Contribution ===
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| − | Let's assume that you will be describing the '''client notification''' mechanism of Scout. During browsing of the table of contents you find that this topic is to be covered in a separate chapter in part "User Interface" of the book.
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| − | Starting with the file ''./tex/book.tex'' you find the following latex "code":
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| − | \part{The Frontend}
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| − | % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- %
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| − | \include{ScoutClient/ScoutClient}
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| − | Alternatively you can search (grep command) for any string in the GitHub shell as shown below (in the example we search for '''notification''')
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| − | $ grep -r -i "notification" ./tex | grep ".tex:"
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| − | ./tex/ScoutClient/ScoutClient.tex:\chapter{Client Notification}
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| − | ./tex/ScoutClient/ScoutClient.tex: \item concept wiki: \url{http://wiki.eclipse.org/Scout/Concepts/Client_Notification}
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| − | This means, that you have to open latex file ''./tex/ScoutClient/ScoutClient.tex''. In that file you find the corresponding chapter:
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| − | % =========================================================================== %
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| − | \chapter{Client Notification}
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| − | needs text
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| − | \noindent Existing Documentation
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| − | \begin{itemize}
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| − | \item presentation: \url{http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/e/ea/20121022_BahBah_Slides.pdf}
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| − | \item concept wiki: \url{http://wiki.eclipse.org/Scout/Concepts/Client_Notification}
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| − | \item forum: \url{http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/241053/}
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| − | \end{itemize}
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| − | Obviously, there is a lot of room for improvement. As some initial guideline you find the pointers to existing documentation in the itemized list. It will make sense to have read and understood the listed items to make sure that your suggested content will reflect the already existing information.
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| − | To contribute to an initially empty chapter/section, please use the latex include mechanism to put your contribution into an additonal file. As an example we create a new (and intially empty) file ''ClientNotification.tex'' in directory ''ScoutClient'' that we can include as follows:
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| − | % =========================================================================== %
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| − | \chapter{Client Notification}
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| − | \include{ClientNotification.tex}
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| − | \noindent Existing Documentation
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| − | \begin{itemize}
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| − | \item presentation: \url{http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/e/ea/20121022_BahBah_Slides.pdf}
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| − | \item concept wiki: \url{http://wiki.eclipse.org/Scout/Concepts/Client_Notification}
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| − | \item forum: \url{http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/241053/}
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| − | In this file ''ClientNotification.tex'' you can then write our latex code.
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| − | To help later refinement/merging please try to put each sentence on a separate line as shown with the "dummy" ''ClientNotification.tex'' file:
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| − | % =========================================================================== %
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| − | % Chapter Client Notification
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| − | % =========================================================================== %
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| − | % start your contribution by stating the following in a box
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| − | \fbox{
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| − | \parbox{12cm}{
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| − | The goal of this section is ...
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| − | The approximate size of this contribution is ... n words - or m pages
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| − | Necessary links/prerequisites with other parts of the book
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| − | Proposed links to external material
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| − | }
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| − | }
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| − | Here comes the content of the contributed chapter.
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| − | This sentence is awfully long, of course this has its reasons, as for this topic we need to describe a many different aspects, interfaces, and classes - but most likely it is just bad style to do such long sentences.
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| − | Third sentence goes here.
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| − | % =========================================================================== %
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| − | Considering the above example, please try to keep sentences to readable lengths.
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| − | If its getting too long, you need to rephrase.
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| − | === When you Need Additional Latex Packages ===
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| − | First: Try to get away with existing concepts from the current book by looking at the latex source code.
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| − | If you are concvinced that the Scout book would be geatly improved by making use of additional latex packages please do the following:
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| − | # Consider that the different chapters should have a consistent look at the end
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| − | # Make sure (using your local build infrastructure) that your proposal works for pdf, html, and epub formats
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| − | # Post your proposal to the Scout forum and explain your idea
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| − | # If encouraged, go ahead.
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| − | === Save your Work ===
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| − | From time to time you want to commit your changes to your local and public repository. For this, you first get the list of changed files and add all those that need to be included in your commit before you commit to the local repository.
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| − | a@1 ~/Desktop/oss/github/matthiaszimmermanntest/scoutbook (matthiaszimmermanntest-client_notification)
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| − | $ git status
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| − | # to check the list of files you want to include to your commit
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| − | $ git add <file1> <file2> <...>
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| − | $ git commit -m '<your commit message goes here>'
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| − | To push your local topic branch (and/or changes in it) to your public remote repository use the following command
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| − | $ $ git push origin matthiaszimmermanntest-client_notification
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| − | This will make your work visible in the GitHub webui.
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| − | == Open a Pull Request ==
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| − | === Initiate a Pull Request ===
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| − | As soon as you have some working code and/or a clear picture of the intended content of your contribution document that intent
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| − | in your contribution, commit to your local repository and push the current status of your feature branch to your public repository as described above.
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| − | Your first content to initiate a pull request might look similar to the example provided below
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| − | To achive this the following latex code was used
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| − | \section{Java SE Basics}
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| − | \applabel{javase_basics}
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| − | \fbox{
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| − | Section waiting for contribution (2'000-3'000 words)
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| − | The goal of this section is to provide the reader with a solid overview of the non-trivial
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| − | Java concepts relevant for scout applications and central aspects of the framework itself.
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| − | The focus of this section is on the Java Standard Edition (Java SE).
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| − | Where appropriate, provide links to high quality online material, that is likely to exist for at least the next year or two.
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| − | }
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| − | }
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| − | Then, login to your GitHub account, and (as shown with the arrows in the screenshot below):
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| − | # Switch to your topic branch
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| − | # Click on the ''Pull Request'' button
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| − | === Review and Complete your Contribution ===
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| − | Make sure that the text in the titel of your pull request properly describes the topic of your intended contribution.
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| − | Please also state your acceptance of the Scout book's licencing terms that will apply to your contribution.
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| − | The necessary steps to complete the pull request are described very well in this [https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests GitHub article].
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| − | Please start reading in Section "Previewing The Pull Request".
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| − | Once you have submitted your pull request, we will review it and work jointly in refining the contribution before it will be merged into the "Blessed repository".
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| − | Once the pull request becomes visible, we can start the discussion about goal, content, code etc. of your contribution.
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| − | This process provides as much information as early as possible.
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| − | This will help others to see who is intending to contribute where and how far the writing has progressed.
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| − | It also helps to minimize frustration as we can avoid having to argue with you over content and quality after a significant effort from your side.
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