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Maximus

  • Q: I'd like to participate. How do I begin?

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      We are looking for both (or either) Perl and BlitzMax programmers. The client is written in BlitzMax and the website in Perl. Javascript programmers (preferably MooTools), HTML, CSS and design wizards are also welcome to help out with the website.

      Please take a look at our Wiki (https://github.com/maximos/maximus-web/wiki/Get-involved) which contains relevant information on how to participate. For starters you could swing by on our IRC channel or simply pick up a bug from the issue tracker(s).


         — Christiaan Kras (Htbaa) · 6 years ago
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        Talk about diverse kinds of contributions. Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        Here's how to download and patch our codes…

        Read about our death-defying mailing list and momentous IRC channel at http://lobstermag.net.

  • Q: Other than writing code, how can I contribute?

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      Create a multi-platform client installer

      So far we don't have a procedure in place to automatically compile the client and generate a multi-platform installer for it. We support Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. For all these platforms we need installers (Windows installer is already available).


         — Christiaan Kras (Htbaa) · 6 years ago
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      Financially support the project

      The website needs a VPS (Virtual Private Server) to run on. Hosting on a VPS allows us to quickly serve the website and allow the hosting of modules. This of course does cost money. Currently the hosting of Maximus is fully self funded.

      If you're a user of Maximus we'd appreciate it if you could make a small financial contribution to keep this service running. Every little bit helps. In return we can keep serving over 250+ modules to the Maximus client.

      For this we have a Pledgie campaign running (http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/10699).


         — Christiaan Kras (Htbaa) · 6 years ago
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        Discuss documentation, testing, webmastering, and/or publicity.

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        We need people to download version 0.4.5 and make sure the frobulator still frobulates correctly.

  • Q: What's a good bug for a newcomer to tackle?

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      Write tests

      You could help increase our test coverage by adding more unit tests for the website.


         — Christiaan Kras (Htbaa) · 6 years ago
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      Help improve the user experience

      Mainly the website could use some help in user experience improvements when it comes to the user interface.

      Suggestions on improving the command line interface (client) and GUI are welcome too.


         — Christiaan Kras (Htbaa) · 6 years ago
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        Many projects have good small tasks that can teach newcomers how the project works. Now's your chance to share one of them!

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        Someone could improve the photo upload dialog box so that it lets you resize the photo before sending it to the web.

  • Q: What is a bug or issue with Maximus that you've been putting off, neglecting, or just plain avoiding?

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      Adding a Mercurial SCM driver to the website

      The website supports several SCM based module repositories, currently only Git and Subversion. Some modules are hosted inside Mercurial repositories.

      Reason we don't support this yet is because no one has experience with Mercurial (yet).

      Please see https://github.com/maximos/maximus-web/issues/51 if you're interested in adding this.


         — Christiaan Kras (Htbaa) · 6 years ago
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      • Examples:

        I don't know how to get started with internationalizing my app.

        Bug 392 about printing was filed five years ago, and I don't even know if printing still works.

        I want help from a C coder writing a Maildir patch for Alpine.

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        If this issue was formally filed on the web, be sure to include the URL.

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About Maximus

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Maximus is an open-source (MIT-licensed) module manager for the programming language BlitzMax, much like CPAN for Perl and Gems for Ruby.

Why did we start Maximus? The amount of available open-source BlitzMax modules has grown a lot in the last years. This is a great thing as it really expands the ways in which we can use BlitzMax. The problem however is that there isn't a general and easy way to install modules. Some authors upload ZIP-files to their personal homepage, some modules are hosted inside SCM (Git, Subversion) repositories and others are only available through the the Code Archives from blitzmax.com. Maximus tries to solve this problem by hosting all modules in a central archive and one unified way to install them.

Maximus consists of 2 parts: a website and a command-line/gui client.

The website is written in Perl and is based on Catalyst, DBIx::Class and Moose. The website provides module authors a way to upload their BlitzMax modules. Maximus will then process these modules to create usable packages for the client. Auto-discovery of SCM hosted modules is also possible.

The client is being written in BlitzMax. When invoked the client will download a sources list from the website which contains all modules and its dependencies.

With the client installing BlitzMax modules and their dependencies keeping them up-to-date becomes an easy and painless process.

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The code is mostly written in BlitzMax, Perl.

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