On May 7, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Suryajith Chillara wrote:

> Well, I'd like to avoid the non-linux environments for development. My 
> work environment currently is ubuntu 12.04. I was going through the 
> benchmark script and that seemed to be written with *nix systems in 
> mind. I was wondering how the data would be picked up on the non-*nix 
> machines where the above mentioned tools aren't available. There you 
> answered my question. Thanks.

BRL-CAD strongly adhere's to a UNIX design philosophy.  Moreover, most of 
BRL-CAD was written with UNIX / POSIX in mind due to that design philosophy, 
but we certainly cater to other environments where it's feasible to do so.  The 
Benchmark is being translated but that will not likely be ready before coding 
begins.  

>> Any days you do not log are assumed to be days you did not work.  Moreover, 
>> there are usually repository commits that are even more detailed.  Once the 
>> coding timeframe begins, it's expected for most students that you'll not 
>> have more then three days of inactivity in your logs before we come chasing 
>> after you for slacking off...  Hopefully we won't have to do that for 
>> *anyone* this year.  ;-)
> Are weekends exempted for the log entries ?

The one thing about any measured rule like this is that there is always some 
percentage that will only do the bare minimum after they're fully distracted by 
other activities halfway through GSoC.  If you're busy working, you will have 
absolutely nothing to worry about.

You're only expected to work a "full time" roughly 40+ hours a week schedule.  
That can generally be sustainably spread over anywhere from 4 to 7 days a week, 
so there shouldn't be more than three consecutive days without logged activity. 
 The day of the week really doesn't matter.  Good developers usually don't care 
either.  You should be coding because you love what you're doing.  If something 
is coming up that will keep you from coding, let your mentor know.

Cheers!
Sean


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