Ping! Student registrations have started. Any prospective mentors? (Crossposting this to discuss-gnustep.)
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > In the end, I only played with compiling Base for Android since writing > the previous mail. But, here's some bad news -- that happen to be good for > my contributions to GNUstep :-) > > It looks like I'll be free from the part-time job that I had last summer. > So, any frustration that Fred may have had with me during Google Summer of > Code should hopefully go away this year. That, of course, if someone still > happens to think I can contribute interesting things :-) > > I've thought a bit more about potential contributions for this GSoC, if > someone chooses to mentor me and GNUstep gets a GNU slot. Here they are, in > order of how "independently" I could implement them. > > - *UIKit*. An implementation of UIKit, along with fixes to QuartzCore > needed to make this happen (and to improve performance). I can mostly do > this on my own, except for code review, advice and discussion that would > improve the work. > - *Core Data persistence.* From what I understand, there is a basic > implementation of Core Data for GNUstep. I could work on extending it with > implementations of NSAtomicStore and NSIncrementalStore. I would not focus > too much on multithreading, migration, lightweight migration, context > merging, etc. > - *Integration of QuartzCore into AppKit.* This also requires a lot of > handholding. Sadly, I don't quite have the "big picture" in my head of how > GNUstep GUI works, especially the backends. > > I'm of course most interested in things that do with QC, since I already > spent a lot of time on Core Animation. > > Is someone willing to mentor me for GSoC? Student applications start on > Monday. It might also make sense to make an announcement at > summer-of-c...@gnu.org; maybe a more interesting candidate than me > appears (or maybe GNU chooses to give us two slots). > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Ivan Vučica <ivuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think it might also be a better year for me to participate as well. >> >> I'd start preparing this week by working on: >> - an OpenGL and OpenGL ES wrapper that would be usable by not just AppKit >> apps (a thin wrapper around GLX that uses CGL API) >> - by moving QuartzCore to use that instead of AppKit >> >> If I have some results by the deadline for student registration, I would >> feel confident to register this year, so it gets to be an even better >> experience for everyone :-) >> >> The project would be: an implementation of parts of UIKit, along with >> patching QuartzCore where needed. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Regards, >> >> Ivan Vučica >> via phone >> >> On 25. 2. 2013., at 09:19, Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> > Just to remind you. As every year, the Google Summer of Code is >> approaching and we need to decide, whether we are going to participate. >> Last year I mentored Ivan and it was great fun and of course I learned a >> lot. Still it was the wrong year for me to do so, I didn't have enough free >> time to really fill up the role of a mentor. This year I should have more >> time for this but would prefer to pass on the mentor role to somebody else. >> And of course we should only participate if we can find suitable students. >> > >> > Fred >> > > -- > Ivan Vučica - i...@vucica.net > > -- Ivan Vučica - i...@vucica.net
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