User:Jiabao wu/GSoC 2013 Project Work

VisualEditor Mathematical Equations Plugin

 * Mentors: Peter Krautzberger (MathJax) and Roan Kattouw
 * GSoC Project Proposal
 * Gerrit Code Review

Working with Mentors
based on the suggestion emails from mentors

Code: submit code directly to the VisualEditor project in Gerrit

Bugs: leave comments on the project bug report

Updates: progress report every 1-2 weeks, depending on how much work have to write about.

Regular communications: IRC, Email, Google Hangout. More information has been discussed in the email.

June

 * Finished the Community Bonding Period Checklist
 * Had the first meeting with VisualEditor team and joined their IRC channel
 * Read through the code examples and documentation introduced on the meeting
 * Started coding! xD
 * Got a lot of help and constant code reviews from Roan
 * Sought for help on the VisualEditor IRC channel


 * Worked on Math node handler, and a basic version of it is about ready to merge
 * Exploring and made a hack version of Math Node UI, which is going to be fixed to normal version soon

July

 * Math node handler merged
 * Math Node UI worked and merged
 * Tested and found some bugs in Math Node UI (recorded on project Bug Tracking page)
 * Math Node UI (Bug Fix) worked and merged
 * Proposal Step 1 Completed =D
 * Figured out how MathJax can work for VisualEditor
 * By discussion with mentors (mostly with Peter) and community
 * By reading the documentation
 * Enabled MathJax in Math Node and allowed MathJax Live Preview
 * Identified some bugs in MathJax Live Preview and recorded on project Bug Tracking page
 * Reviewed and learned about patch Math Clean-up (by Esanders)

August

 * Math extension got a lot of community attentions. I read through the emails, chat flows, etc. to learn how people think about it.
 * Discussion about Math for VE on my user talk. (with Spectral sequence and Salix alba)
 * Create Math Node UI page and get further feedbacks from the discussion page.
 * Further research on how MathJax can work with the GenerateContentNode.
 * Discussions with mentors and communities.
 * Worked on MathJax Live Preview II which about to support MathJax Live Preview totally.

September

 * Got MathJax Live Preview II supported MathJax Live Preview.
 * Fixed MathJax Live Preview II rebase problems.
 * Created a new patch Implement live preview in MWMathInspector (original called MathJax Live Preview III) which solved the master conflicts. It also includes:
 * 250ms after the user stops typing, rerender the node with what they've typed so far.
 * Update ve.ce.MWMathNode to no longer emit 'rerender' when s load (handled in the parent class now)
 * When using MathJax, tell it which node to rerender
 * Allows users to add LaTeX node



1 July - 7 July

 * Updated the code according to several code reviews
 * Studied about DOM and Ajax online
 * Got the Math Node UI to work properly
 * Code has been merged (by Mentor Roan) xD
 * Math node handler and Math Node UI
 * Planned for next week:
 * Fix the bugs just found from testing
 * Start discussion and work for Math UI and rendering

8 July - 14 July

 * Created a page for discussion about Math Node User Interface
 * Created a page for Bug Tracking
 * Found three bugs from testing and fixed two of them
 * Read documents about MathJax
 * Investigated problems with using MathJax
 * Enabled MathJax in the Math Node

15 July - 21 July

 * More dicussion about MathJax implementation (with Mentor Peter)
 * Updated code of the bug fixing according to the code review

22 July - 31 July

 * Reviewed and learned about patch Math Clean-up
 * Further investigated and discussed about MathJax live rendering
 * Working on patch MathJax Live Preview
 * Identified the bugs encounted