JabCon 2021

2021-08-30 to 2021-09-03

Monday, 2021-08-30

• 14:00: Direct meeting at JabCon place
  • https://vvs.de
  • S-Bahn "Maichingen, Nord"
  • Other pickup options
    • "Universität Stuttgart" (train station)
• get together, project setup, start working at tasks
• Welcome dinner
• JabRef e.V. JHV 20oo ("non-profit organization")

Tuesday, 2021-08-31

• META: Each developer: fokus on one big task
• META: @k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 - 6 hours behind us ("eastern time"; GMT-4)

(JabCon 2020: Reduce the number of open PRs)

• @koppor Saving file throws exception https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/6102
• @koppor Finish @koppor PRs
• @Benedikt: Implement JabCon features for PDF handling
• @k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 overleaf (three-way-merge)
  • joining around 21:00 German time
• @Calixtus and @Dominik - clean up preferences
• @Siedlerchr Reimplement search dialog
  • https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/4096
• @andlaus: packaging for debian
  • https://github.com/koppor/jabref/blob/about/jabref-in-debian.md
• @Dominik: Relaxed parsing of query and then transforming to Lucene. See https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7575

Backup

• @Siedlerchr Floating main table
  • JavaFX Core Control
• Finish OpenOffice-PR
• @Dominik: Finish SLR (documentation, reply to forum users, fix issues)
• @Calixtus Improve Startup time: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/6057
  • Replace fxml to Java-code
  • JavaFX 17
  • Replace logger by tinylog2? (@koppor, @Siedlerchr )
    • just replace the implementation of SLF4J
    • @koppor idea: remove facade, too; @Siedlerchr objects
      • Back in 2016 (?) @koppor replaced the complete logging by simplelog (?) and JabRef was faster (bad thing was that Log.debug(this, ...) has to be used
  • @Calixtus Rewrite LaTeX2Unicode (and vise versa), "normalizing" -> "fix-point"
    • https://github.com/phfaist/pylatexenc/
    • https://github.com/phfaist/pylatexenc/blob/master/pylatexenc/latexencode/_uni2latexmap.py

Not Chosen

• CSL support for pdflatex
• Free pair programming

Afternoon

• Discussions

Wednesday, 2021-09-01

• Continue work of Tuesday

Afternoon

• Discussions

Thursday, 2021-09-02

• Breakfast

• Stand preferences

• Discussion of https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/7181 (main table scaling, "fit horizontally on screen")

• https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/7336 (Theme switching - we should get this in)

• Continue work of Wednesday

• Lunch

• Farewell ~15oo

Discussion Items

• SLR
  • strict and lax

Organizational Issues

• How to communicate our progress internally?
• How to communicate our progress externally? --> too much boards? --> https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/projects

Fun ideas

• 1 hour tournament: Who fixes the most codacy issues -> https://app.codacy.com/gh/JabRef/jabref/dashboard