KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

Thu Jan 18 22:05:59 UTC 2018

Yea, I thought that we could find maybe some intermediate state/goal for
the parallel rendering to which we can fallback when the overall goal can't
be achieved. I would add a line about the difficulty of this project to the
idea list. What do you think about this plan? But if you still think that
it's not a good idea, I'll remove it.

Your project ideas sound great. I will add these to the ideas list. Also
maybe David could mentor one of them.

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Martin Flöser <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:

> Am 2018-01-18 15:23, schrieb Roman Gilg:
>
>> I added two KWin project ideas:
>> https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#KWin
>>
>
> The first idea (parallel rendering) is IMHO too difficult for a GSoC. The
> other idea sounds reasonable from scope.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
>
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Roman Gilg <subdiff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Valorie, do we have until 23rd with project ideas? I didn't want to
>>> mentor this year because I only was a GSoC student last year, but
>>> since there are not yet many ideas from Plasma/KWin I might do it
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> Nate, I want to get a rework of the Wayland Mouse KCM already into
>>> Plasma 5.13. But the final GSoC submission is way after the release.
>>> Libinput configuration on X might be still a valuable addition
>>> (although I would like to see these resources better spent on some
>>> other part of the Wayland session, in particular when you factor in
>>> the late final submission next summer).
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Roman
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Nate Graham <pointedstick at zoho.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> I've submitted an idea for System Settings: Improve handling for
>>> touchpads and mice with Libinput
>>>
>>>
>>> https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#Improve_handling_
>> for_touchpads_and_mice_with_Libinput
>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>>
>>> This is pretty important going forward since most distros are
>>> shipping with Libinput now, but our users aren't able to configure
>>> their devices without resorting to editing xorg config files using a
>>> different driver.
>>>
>>> Nate
>>>
>>> On 01/15/2018 06:13 AM, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
>>> Hi, Valorie!
>>>
>>> I have just edited the list of Krita ideas, now we have 8 ideas, 4
>>> of which are low-hanging fruits with localized optimizations of the
>>> code. I hope that will help people who do not want to learn all
>>> half-million lines of Krita code.
>>>
>>> Speaking truly, I think I understand why there is so little effort
>>> from people with the ideas. Since the last year Google forbids
>>> students to apply more than 2 times, it means that most of the
>>> applicants will be newcomers and, most probably, they will not be
>>> able to prepare some extensive proposal/design for a project. It is
>>> just too difficult to prepare a good proposal for a project so big
>>> in size. So it might be that the quality of last year proposals
>>> discouraged people from doing this work again.
>>>
>>> The only way how we can solve the issue is to prepare very
>>> scope-limited tasks, such that the students would not need to learn
>>> all the code (in our case we just added AVX optimizations, which are
>>> limited to a scope of a couple of classes). But that is not always
>>> possible or makes sense for the some projects.
>>>
>>> On 15.01.2018 03:39, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>> I'm very discouraged to see so little movement on this. After
>>> skipping GCi this past fall, are we now also considering skipping
>>> GSoC? Or downsizing the number of students we are mentoring?
>>>
>>> Without Ideas we will not get students. More important, we must
>>> complete the Org application soon, and the Ideas page is the core of
>>> that application.
>>>
>>> This is good for your team and your project, in the long run. It
>>> brings in new contributors and fresh ideas.
>>>
>>> If you need some guidance, please read
>>>
>>> https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-projec
>> t-ideas-list.html
>>
>>> [2]
>>>
>>> I should have linked to it for the last email.
>>>
>>> Valorie
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Valorie Zimmerman
>>> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com <mailto:valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors,
>>>
>>> TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas [3]
>>> <https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas [3]>; read
>>>
>>> https://community.kde.org/GSoC. Now.
>>>
>>> Every year, we've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC,
>>> and so now is the time for organizations to apply[1]. We have
>>> begun to write our application, and  that means that our Ideas
>>> page needs to be filled NOW, because that is the prime
>>> consideration for the GSoC team once the Org Applications
>>> deadline
>>> has passed.
>>>
>>> The quality of our ideas and the guidance they give our students
>>> are the most important part of our application. Please begin
>>> filling in your ideas now if you have not already, and ensure
>>> that
>>> that page is comprehensive, accurate and attractive. Including
>>> screenshots and other images is allowed, if it enriches the idea
>>> for a project. *Please ensure complete information about how to
>>> contact the team*; this is crucial.
>>>
>>> Also, take a look at the landing page
>>> https://community.kde.org/GSoC. Experienced mentors agree that:
>>>
>>> 1. commits must be made before the student proposal is
>>> submitted,
>>> and linked on that proposal, and
>>>
>>> 2. that regular communication from the student must be initiated
>>> by the student at least weekly, and we expect daily or nearly
>>> daily communication with the team in a more informal way.
>>>
>>> Be sure to point students to that information, as this should
>>> lower the number of proposals, while raising the quality.
>>>
>>> 1. https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [4]
>>> <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [4]>
>>>
>>> PS: If your team has an Idea, ensure that you have mentors for
>>> it,
>>> and that those mentors are subscribe to KDE-Soc-Mentor list.
>>> Remove any ideas without mentors available, please. Now, before
>>> you forget!
>>>
>>> Valorie
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://about.me/valoriez
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dmitry Kazakov
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1]
>> https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#Improve_handling_
>> for_touchpads_and_mice_with_Libinput
>> [2]
>> https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-projec
>> t-ideas-list.html
>> [3] https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas
>> [4] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>>
>
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