<div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/15 Parker Coates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parker.coates@kdemail.net">parker.coates@kdemail.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 16:50, Miha Čančula wrote:<br>
> Hello!<br>
><br>
> As you might know, I'm the author of the KDE4 version of Knights. The<br>
> program has just released a stable 2.3 version with enough features for<br>
> general use, but there are still things missing. I posted a GSoC idea on the<br>
> Techbase page and got some responses from students. I have another idea in<br>
> mind, but I won't publish it on the techbase if there's no reason to.<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately, I myself am still a student, and I would like to participate<br>
> in the summer of code program as well. I can't be both a student and a<br>
> mentor at the same time, and considering that I could use some extra money,<br>
> I'd rather be a student. However, I've never participated in GSoC (but I<br>
> have in SoK), so I can't say if I'll be accepted or not. This brings us to a<br>
> dilemma, and I'd like some things cleared first.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm guessing that getting a GSoC placement in your own project with an<br>
outside mentor isn't really allowed?<br></blockquote><div>I hope so, I certainly don't plan on sending a proposal for my own project, if that's what you mean. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> 1. Would a proposal for Knights be accepted at all? I know that you're<br>
> reluctant to accept proposals for new games, but this project would not be a<br>
> new game. Then again, it's part of extragear and not the kde-games module,<br>
> and as the first game there, I have no idea what the situation is like.<br>
<br>
</div>Although Knights may not technically be in the KDEGames module, it is<br>
definitely a KDE application and a member of the KDE community. I<br>
don't see any reason why it wouldn't be accepted, but it might be<br>
worth confirming with the KDE GSoC folks. After all, Amarok is /only/<br>
an extragear app and it gets plenty of GSoC attention. ;)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> 2. In the event that I get accepted as a student (for something else, but<br>
> still KDE) would anyone be prepared to take over mentorship for Knights? It<br>
> uses the KDE technologies as much as possible, so there shouldn't be any<br>
> unknown code in it. The code base isn't large, and I tried to document its<br>
> design, but if there are any questions about the code I'll try my best to<br>
> answer.<br>
<br>
</div>The first part of the task (saving games to file) is quite straight<br>
forward and could easily be mentored by anyone with basic Qt<br>
development experience. The second (and in my estimation, much larger)<br>
part, however, I think requires quite a bit of high-level chess<br>
knowledge. As a non-chess-player, I really don't know why one would<br>
want to analyse a set of positions and how one would best do so. I<br>
think this would severely limit my ability to mentor the development<br>
of such a UI, so I think you'll need a mentor with more chess<br>
experience.<br></blockquote><div>Well, unfortunately I don't know much about chess and its players either. And I think you're right, there should be someone involved that knows what's to be done. So I suppose it's not the best idea for this year<br>
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Parker<br>
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