we urgently need more tasks for Google Code-in

[Yuë Liu]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Philip Van Hoof <philip at codeminded.be> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 15:34 +0100, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>
> Heya Lydia,
>
>> Here's a chance to get a lot of work done by our eager Google Code-in students.
>>
>> Google Code-in has been running for a bit now and we're close to
>> running out of tasks. Please help me out by adding new tasks for the
>> students. They're 13 to 17 years old and can work on:
>> * Code
>
> For a Code task, but I'm not a Google mentor anymore since a few years,
> I would propose a task to help the Calligra maintainers split the many
> components into well separated and written office-suite libraries.
>
> This includes ensuring that a well defined environment on Windows and
> MacOS X will be documented and the build environment prepared to help
> people with quickly setting up a development environment. But also, and
> perhaps more importantly, improve documentation on working with
> Calligra's APIs / developing with Calligra.

I agree improving documentation is a very important task. Currently
many APIs are not documented and some with wrong information. Good
documentation will make our community attract new contributors more
easily. But does documentation task acceptable in Google Code-in?

>
> For example making a SDK installer for Windows that hooks into Visual
> Studio C++, language bindings to C#, Cocoa, Obj-C, support for Eclipse,
> intelliSence and code completion, etc. I think this would push
> calligra-libs and -dev to a new level attracting many more developers
> and opening opportunities for the libraries to be used in a lot more
> places for office suites but also for software that could use office
> document parsers and perhaps more importantly renderers (for which there
> are afaik currently not even commercial offerings that are platform
> independent and that can be used as libraries - like Calligra can).
>
> I could mentor this, but I must admit that I'm rather new to both
> Calligra and KDE so perhaps that's not a good idea.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Philip
>
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>
>
> Philip Van Hoof
> Software developer
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