Re: [PATCH] cleanup java code and update to Java5, including generics (36)

On 2012-06-29 14:30, Philipp Riemer wrote:
> Hey Noel, I would like to offer my help for that because I have some 
> spare time over the weekend. If it's ok with you, can you send me 
> (better off the list, I guess) some pointers to files/folders I can 
> start working on?

It's always great to get more people helping with LibreOffice, but first 
let's see how happy the powers-that-be are with my changes :-)

I'm sure exactly to what degree the LO hackers want such changes (I'm 
not even sure if they'll be happy with all of my generics changes).
So we should probably wait for some feedback before proceeding.

Just as a note for other people - I did the bulk of the work using 
Eclipse and it's built-in re-factoring tools and quickfix tools.
Most of my time was spent
(a) configuring an Eclipse workspace to handle the weird and wonderful 
directory layouts that the LO java code lives in.
(b) handling the tricky little edge cases that the automatic tools could 
not figure out.
(c) in the case of javadoc errors, trying to figure out the original 
intention, so I could update it correctly.

Now that I think about it, one thing you could do that would help, and 
that I'm pretty sure the LO hackers would not mind, is to run a 
spellcheck tool over the java code, and fix whatever errors you may find.
These links should be enough to get you started:
http://blogs.operationaldynamics.com/andrew/software/java-gnome/spell-checking-source-code
http://www.bdaum.de/eclipse/