Introduction and expression of interest in GSoC

[Oliver Sander]

Hi Umang,

great to hear you are interested in Okular development.

At least the "showing" part of the project proposal is really mostly work in poppler,
so you may want to familiarize yourself with that.  Poppler has a looong list of
open bugs, so certainly there are a few that are suitable to get you started. :-)
One suggestion could be

  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/461
  (Polyline comment beginning and end is not correctly drawn)

That may not appear to be easy at first sight, but a very similar fix can be found in

  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/106

Tobias, correct me if I am wrong.

Don't hesitate to ask questions if necessary.

Best regards,
Oliver


On 08.03.19 20:31, Umang Malik wrote:
> Hi,
> I am Umang Malik, a Computer Science sophomore at IIT Kanpur, India. I would like to express my interest in participating in this year's GSoC under KDE. Having a look at the projects, I am particularly interested in "Add support for showing and adding replies to sticky notes". 
> Being an old and active user of Okular, and having tried a variety pdf readers in the past, I believe this is a handy and important feature for Okular. I have successfully built Okular locally and also reproduced issue 387834 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387834>. 
> 
> I've been programming for over four years and am proficient with development, be it through coursework, internship, or projects. Some of my key projects include an autocorrect application <https://github.com/umang-malik/autocorrect> in C++ (using Visual Studio for GUI) and SAT solver <https://github.com/tanmayanand44/CS202-Assignments-Fall-2018/tree/master/Assignment2> (using DPLL algorithm). You can find my github profile here <https://github.com/umang-malik>.
> 
> I would like to work on the project for replies on sticky notes and would like to formally discuss the idea with you. Also, it would be great if I can get some suggestions for bugs I could fix to get familiar with the code and contribute.
> 
> Regards!
> Umang Malik

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