Super Early GSOC Thread

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:50 PM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Google code-in has now finished, we need to think about GSOC.
>
> I know this is rather early but  last year we were a bit caught out with
> dealing with random people emailing the mailing list.
>
> *Who here is interested in being a mentor?*
>
> Me! I'll do it, I'll do it!


> *Does anyone have any ideas for projects?
> *
>
I want some kick-ass demo of tubes. I ideally want my collaborative editor
plugin in kate. To make us more than just "another IM client."

Plasma Active would be another good topic. 3 more months on that would make
a real difference.
I can't see it moving forwards without someone really stepping up. We can
probably get someone from Plasma to co-mentor. I'll have all the
declarative plugins all nice and awesome by then.

Unit testing our library? I'm not sure anyone would want to do that. Partly
because it's boring, and partly because unit testing something with dbus
stuff is very hard.

*Crazy idea* Could we get a student to work on TpQt and finish the CM
bindings? I had a look, and quite a bit is done... the code is not /that/
hard.

Dave


> *Proposed action plan:*
>
> For when perspective students email us (based on comments from last year):
>  - Instead of responding to GSOC threads on the ML we just forward them to
> a wiki page with the basic information.
>
>  - Any students who want to discuss their proposal before adding to
> melange can email a tiny mailing list of everyone who's volunteered to be a
> mentor.. we will place a link to this on our wiki.
>
>  - We ask potential students to showcase their existing open source work
> (in any project, in any langauge whatever, even just filing in userbase)..
> if they've done nothing we ignore them.
>
> (note to any students reading this.. start hacking now!)
>
> David
>
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