Summer of code : weekly report #1
Par Stéphane le mercredi 12 mai 2010, 20:34 - GNOME - Lien permanent
Hi,
My summer of code implies a weekly report, well here's the first one.
Right now we're still in the "Community bonding" period, which means getting in touch with the community and getting familiar with your tools and such.
As far as I can remember, here's what I've done :
- Introduced my project : mailing-list post ;
- Got my feed on planet GNOME (hi again) ;
- Created a GNOME Live wiki page ;
- Had a long talk with my mentor about the project, was pretty cool (he had been busy with exams since then). It was the first serious discussion about Ease design.
- Toyed with Keynote, a friend of mine showed me some killer-features I should implement, more about those extra features soon.
- Tried to find what's the best unit test framework to use with Vala : GLib framework isn't optimal according to that blog post, but I think I'll stick to it.
- Asked on GNOME-related IRC chans about the development method of people, was pretty amazed that some serious GNOME hackers just throw a few sketches then just dive in the code (and make it awesome). I'm still going to draw some UML diagrams before but I'm still opened to suggestions, please comment!
- Was bored in class one day : tried to copy the awesome Chrome Experiment , Chain Reaction, with Clutter. Didn't went too far, but I still have to take that class a few weeks...
- Set up a Remember the Milk public TODO list, as seen on a report of Yuvi (have to get in touch with you by the way, can be helpful as we'll both have to code some Vala GTK UI at some point).
- Provide a hackergotchi to the planet.
- Create the Ease repo on git.gnome.org (no news of my account application yet).
- Start coding a bit.
- Get more inspiration of Keynote and other various tools.
To conclude on something else : today I was in class, laptop on, and talking about modem-capabilities of the friend sitting next to me's HTC Hero, running Android. Of course, the whole row seating behind me starts laming about Linux = SH*T, and defies me to make it work on my poor Fedora 13. So what ? Plugged the thing in, couldn't even click anything, ten seconds later I was connected on my GMail with no lag, epic win. Kudos to the NetworkManager team (I guess), this is going to keep them quiet for a few weeks!
Commentaires
So why exactly aren't you contributing to Glide? If you guys don't work together there will be two sponsored Clutter/Vala Gnome Presentation apps that once sponsoring ends will wither. WTG
That is not how FOSS is supposed to work. Talk to your mentor and Google to get this sorted out.
Again (please read my previous comment on my introduction post), I am working on this. I am aware of the problem, and I fully understand it, believe me. I don't like divided efforts toward the same goal. However, I can't merge two projects just by snapping my fingers, especially because I'm only a student and not the leader of the project.
But I talked to my mentor about it, and he told me he'll try to find a solution and talk to Robert (Glide's maintainer). That's pretty much all I can say for the moment, sorry. And by the way, only Ease is written in Vala and sponsored.
Cheers.
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