cacaoweb

Improve cacaoweb

As a free software project, cacaoweb is very open to your contributions. You don't need developer skills to help, there are several non-coding ways to get involved in a project (code is welcome too, of course!).

Ways in which you can contribute:

program new features,
report bugs (errors in the program),
debug existing features,
improve documentation or the wiki,
help other users on forums,
distribute cacaoweb,
donate money to the project,

As you can see, everyone can help.

Developing

cacaoweb is (as the name says) written in OCaml and uses C. Besides this, we also need people skilled in HTML, JavaScript and CSS, as these are parts which make our user interface. You don't have to be expert in all these areas - even knowing only one of them, you can still provide substantial help in creating or debugging some features.

For storing our code we use Subversion. If you don't know it, you can get some basic facts in Wikipedia or reference in the comprehensive book Version Control with Subversion.

Source Code Repository

Subversion repository is located at https://cacaoweb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cacaoweb and you can browse it online using ViewVC.

To start development you want to start with trunk/cacaoweb, where the current development version of cacaoweb is stored. Other interesting parts of repository include:

trunk/: Current development version of all code.
trunk/cacaoweb: cacaoweb code.
trunk/website: Website code.
trunk/localized_docs: Localized documentation.
tags/: Tags for all released versions (as RELEASE_X_Y_Z)
tags/STABLE: Special moving tag which always contains latest released stable version
tags/TESTING: Special moving tag which always contains latest released testing version
branches/: Maintenance branches for older versions (as QA_X_Y)

Examples of how to checkout cacaoweb code:

#  Latest development version:
svn checkout https://cacaoweb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cacaoweb/trunk/cacaoweb cacaoweb-dev
# Latest stable version:
svn checkout https://cacaoweb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cacaoweb/tags/STABLE/cacaoweb cacaoweb-stable

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Coding Standards

Standards should be obeyed in all cases when possible. Generated content should be valid XHTML 1.0 and CSS.