[Kstars-devel] Should KStars do GCI 2011?

[Rafał Kułaga]

Hi,

Yep, fixing KStars' bugs is both hard and takes _much_ longer than
expected; fixing and extending OAL stuff took Lukasz over two months
and I still find some imperfections.

So, just a few ideas about what GCI 2011/2012 students could do for KStars:

* Throughly test OAL support - Lukasz has added support for OAL
extensions (mainly for deep sky observations), but I guess it might
still be a little buggy. It would be great if someone could test it
before it is merged into master.
* As "sky guides" feature will also be merged in near future, it would
be nice to have a few guides made (this basically requires only the
knowledge of XML and XSD).

>From what I've read about GCI, I see it's not only about coding. To be
honest, I doubt that any serious programming tasks are a good choice
for this program, but I have a few pieces of code marked for
refactoring (not related to computations) that should be easy enough
to do for GCI guys.

Cheers,
Rafal

2011/10/14 Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>:
> 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
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