Hello, just introducing myself
Stathis Sideris
im at satspeed.gr
Sun Oct 28 17:44:38 UTC 2007
Hello everyone,
First of all, let me say thanks for developing Bugzilla. In accordance
to the guidelines for (potential) new developers, I'm introducing myself
here.
My name is Stathis Sideris and I use ssideris as my irc username for
irc.mozilla.org (I haven't logged in for a while now). I'm based in
London and I'm currently working as a senior application developer for a
scientific analytics company.
I have a strong Perl and Java background because of the work I did for
my PhD in Bioinformatics, and I have released a couple of personal open
source projects in the past:
http://ditaa.sf.net
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1067
I would also say that I'm a bit artistic, with experience in web design
and UI design. See:
http://www.stathis.co.uk
I have recently attempted to create a custom skin to make Bugzilla more
visually appealing, (see samples at:
http://www.stathis.co.uk/misc/bugzilla_home_new.png
http://www.stathis.co.uk/misc/bugzilla_display_bug_new1.png
http://www.stathis.co.uk/misc/bugzilla_create_bug_new1.png
)
but I quickly run into some limitations. More specifically, I think that
currently the generated HTML is not very CSS friendly because of the
lack of class and id attributes and because of the use of tables. I
would like to submit a patch which will improve the situation by adding
id and class attributes where necessary (especially to form fields) and
possibly wrap some parts of the generated html in named div or span
elements to allow the option to hide those parts (for example, in order
to hide the text title of the page reading "Bugzilla" so that it can be
replaced with a graphical logo). Anything that I submit will be
non-invasive in the sense that it will not change the way the default
skin looks. The aim would be to provide a "foothold" for new skins. For
the time being, I'm not intending to touch the table-based layouts.
Do you think this is a good idea for a patch? Who is the appropriate
person for reviewing any changes that I produce?
Thank you,
Stathis Sideris
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