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Which Software Project of AAVSO suits me?

superlinux
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 11:26

Hello. I am just asking which software project suits my expertise based on my CV/Resume which is attached in this post. Please don't think whatsoever that I am asking for employment at AAVSO, meh! The CV is just there to help you answer my question. I want to volunteer , of course. Let the project you wcan give me be something small so I can get accuainted with  your ways and be confident that I am working with AAVSO the correct way.

Thanks a lot.

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SGEO
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Thu, 06/21/2018 - 13:53
Software volunteer

Greetings Rani,

Bert and I are always looking for software help! And your skill set looks to be a good fit.

Let's start a conversation off-line and sort things out.

Thanks!
George

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Sat, 06/23/2018 - 09:23
Another suggestion

Hi Rani

I note that you have Java experience. Some of AAVSO's desktop applications are written in Java. One possibility is VStar (see https://www.aavso.org/vstar-overview).

There are more VStar features and plugin ideas than I have time to get on top of, so assistance is welcome. This invitation extends to anyone with Java experience BTW. :)

David

superlinux
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Sun, 07/15/2018 - 09:36
I downloaded the project code and got a 505 Error.

Hello David. I "svn checkout " the vstar project and I imported it into Eclipse IDE. I hope I am doing the right thing through this import. I tried to build the code just to test it. I selected the Java Application build task and it complianed this way:  [ missing icon "/icon/vstaricon.png" ]. I searched the project and the icon file is there but I could not find the leading thread to this message.
the 505 Error I had when I checkout the project:  svn: E175002: Unexpected server error 500 'Internal Server Error' on '/p/vstar/code/!svn/rvr/879/trunk/VStar.app/Icon%0D'
 

I also got another complaint about building the VeLa scripting part. It seems I need to tell Eclipse about the location of the missing classes or packages which helps in building the project smoothly.

I did read a number of UI classes of the code. I liked the idea about how the project took care of the presence of different operationg systems. and I am still reading. project was easy for me to read and understand. I still did not reach the point where the project reads the data to plot it on a graph. God's willing , I will read that plotting part.

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Sun, 07/15/2018 - 12:05
Building VStar

Hi Rani

Thanks for your interest in VStar!

A simpler way to get started is to look at the "Building from source" section in the top-level ReadMe.txt. file. You can use Ant to build VStar including VeLa classes, just by typing "ant" in a command shell once you have installed Ant. Let me know if you have questions about the instructions.

I do need to provide instructions for Eclipse though. If you install the ANTLR 4 plugin, this can be used to generate the classes for VeLa. That icon error is annoying but harmless; just dismiss the error dialog box.

I appreciate your feedback.

Let me know if you are interested in contributing the project. I'm certainly always happy to have help. So many ideas, so little time. :)

David