Google - summer of code, Amarok unit testing (Teo Mrnjavac)

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Teo Mrnjavac <teo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Tomáš Zahradník <tzahradn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Sir or Madam,
>>
>> I am a high school student (more accurately a gymnasium student) from Czech
>> Republic, Prague. For several months I am strongly concerned with
>> programmig, especially in C++ and Java. I have recently finished my first
>> "bigger" project, concretely a card game Crazy 8's (+ developed 4 different
>> strategies for computer player). I learned a lot, however, today I would
>> make it in an another way (mark of improvement). I am trying to write more
>> "clean code".
>>
>> I am strongly convinced that one best matures in society of professionals.
>> That is the purpose of my mail. I read the GSoC project Amarok unit testing,
>> that KDE provides for students. I am not experienced in code testing so far,
>> however, I am higly motivated to gain this skill. (I am reading a book,
>> where several captures are dedicated to testing).
>>
>> Could you give any further informations about this project, any advices or
>> eventually any plans of our cooperation?
>
> Hello Tomas,
>
> as you may already know, right now it is the off season for Google
> Summer of Code. We always welcome new contributors, but we do not
> always have resources for mentoring them actively. I'm going to
> forward this to the Amarok development mailing list to see if there's
> somebody who can mentor you (right now I cannot commit to this).
>
> If nobody steps up, you are still welcome to work on the project: just
> submit your patches on Review Board. The team can try and answer your
> questions (channel #amarok on irc.freenode.net), we just won't be able
> to follow you as closely as a dedicated mentor would.

Hello Tomáš,

as I feared, Amarok does not have the manpower to provide a dedicated
mentor for this task right now (also because Google Code-in is
underway), but you are welcome to join us in the #amarok channel on
irc.freenode.net and work on the project. If you get stuck, feel free
to ask questions in the channel or on the development mailing list
(amarok-devel at kde.org).
If you'd like a smaller task to get you started, take a look at our
bugtracker [1] and search for tasks with "JJ" in the title or tagged
as "Junior Jobs". For more information on how to get involved, see [2]
and [3].

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/
[2] http://amarok.kde.org/en/contribute
[3] http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development

Cheers,
-- 
Teo Mrnjavac
http://teom.org  |  teo at kde.org