[Kstars-devel] GCI 2011

[Bruce]

On October 15, 2011 08:00:12 AM kstars-devel-request at kde.org wrote:
> Today's Topics:
> 
>    1. Should KStars do GCI 2011? (Akarsh Simha)
>    2. Fwd: KStars Crashes While loading in Ubuntu 11.10 (Akarsh Simha)
>    3. Re: Fwd: KStars Crashes While loading in Ubuntu 11.10
>       (Akarsh Simha)
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:44:05 -0500
> From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
> To: KStars Development Mailing List <kstars-devel at kde.org>
> Subject: [Kstars-devel] Should KStars do GCI 2011?
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> Hi
> 
> [This post is speculative]
> 
> I just noted that GCI 2011 is going to happen. More likely than not,
> KDE will be offered participation. If that happens, KStars will be
> given a chance to participate.
> 
> I just wanted to collect opinions on whether KStars must participate.
> 
> In my current opinion, KStars should not. We still have code from
> Code-In 2011 that's lying in the repositories, unmerged. Besides most
> of the things that you can get accomplished in Code-In are
> documentation and small things like that. From last year, I noticed
> that students are usually more focussed on simple tasks to get paid,
> rather than taking larger challenges. KStars has a lot of bugs, and
> fixing them would be a good thing, but most of our bugs are way too
> complicated for pre-university students. So that's my opinion
> (although I really want another T-Shirt!)
> 
> Of course, open source is a do-ocracy, and if someone feels they
> should float a task, they should go ahead and do that.
> 
> Regards
> Akarsh

If Kstars has a lot to be fixed and fixes in the tree that need to be merged now 
I don't see what can be served by joining in GCI 2011, unless by not 
participating you might now get funding the following year.

Please take my comments with a pinch of salt as I'm just a user and not part 
of the dev team.


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