Open source projects like OpenLaszlo depend on the community as much as they depend on corporate sponsoring: OpenLaszlo nears its 5th anniversary as an open source success story in October 09. It’s only natural that bugs build up in a project over such a long time, and now the OpenLaszlo core team and committers ask the global OpenLaszlo community for help in cleaning up the OpenLaszlo JIRA bug database.
You are using OpenLaszlo in your projects? Have you ever wondered how you could get started contributing to OpenLaszo? Have you been watching the growth of the OpenLaszlo community, wondering where you could fit in? Well, here’s the answer: With the help of some OpenLaszlo core team members and external committers, we’re going to see what we can do to cut down the number of open tickets, encourage more people to get involved with the OpenLaszlo source, and last of all – have some fun.
It might have been a bit quiet around OpenLaszlo in the past months, but the quality of the DHTML runtime has been dramatically improved. Companies like Google have proven how JavaScript/Ajax can be used to build complex applications running inside the brower. Well, OpenLaszlo is part of the Ajax revolution. As the only major RIA framework supporting Flash and JavaScript/Ajax versions of the same applications – but I don’t have to tell you I guess.
How you can help?
- Review some of the bugs that are more than 2 years old to see if they are still valid. Try the test case and see if it is still a problem. Either comment in the bug (including the version in which you tested it), or send an email to the laszlo-dev list with the results and we’ll take care of dispensing it within JIRA
- Look for duplicates before filing a new bug. If you find some, let us know which are duplicates and we’ll consolidate them
- Pick an area of your interest/expertise in OpenLaszlo. Review the open bugs in that category and comment them with your findings (or send us an email).
I’ve been using OpenLaszlo since October 2004, and have been working as a community member and inside Laszlo with the OpenLaszlo team. I’ve to admit, it has been one of my best working experiences so far. We can see that people all around the globe are using the technology, let’s virtually connect and make OpenLaszlo even better.
Where’s the fun?
If that’s not enough, how about joining me for a fun 5 years of OpenLaszlo party in Munich in October? I’m still looking for other community members interested in joining me! The OpenLaszlo team did some Laszlo, Pizza and Beer parties over the in the U.S. a while back: who’s ready to join me for an OpenLaszlo, Pretzel and Beer party in Munich? I can imagine that Keiji Ono would be willing to set up an OpenLaszlo, Sushi and Beer party in Japan, what do you think, Keiji-san?
