GSoC Internship Ideas
Hi all, Marina mentioned to me that we still need more ideas for this year's GSoC [1]. If you would like to mentor someone, please get in touch: it's really important that we have enough mentors and internship ideas. If you are willing to be a mentor but aren't sure about what you'd work on, I have a bunch of ideas that might be of interest: - A typing break app - we lost the old typing break setting in the jump to 3.x. Having a break timer app would be a nice replacement - https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Potential/BreakTimer - Multimonitor bug fixing - we have lots of multimonitor bugs, and I'm sure that we could bundle some of them together to make a nice project - https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012/Multimonitor - PackageKit bug fixing. I think that Jon has a bunch of UX bugs that - could make a nice project. - Application paging in the overview - this will work better with the new folders, and will help with spatial memory. See https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/shell/application-picker/centered-grid3/vertical-pager.png for one idea of how it could look - Implement Cheese redesign. Cheese needs a bit of love, and we have some mockups that we could work from - https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Cheese - Avatar selection - this would be an avatar selection dialog that could be used by Initial Setup, Contacts, User Accounts and Chat. We could also try and pull avatars from online accounts (which might be a good project in its own right). See bug - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687871 - A new time and date panel for the control center. We have mockups for this: https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/DateAndTime - Contacts - I could easily come up with a list of UX bugs. We've also talked about offline editing being a potential internship. - Transfers - this is intended to be a kind of integrated download and transfers manager. It would provide the UI for downloads from Web, transfers from Chat and copy/move operations for Files: https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Transfers Let me know if you're interested in mentoring any of these. Allan [1] https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2013/Ideas -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
the release is out
Congratulations, everybody We've managed another release without schedule delays; there was some great last-minute debugging and bug-fixing effort on the part of several people. Thanks for that. Of course, we didn't fix _all_ the bugs that were found, and a number of patches were deemed better off after the release. Which is now ! The 3.8.1 release is scheduled for April 15, two short weeks away. Here is a list of bugs that we've earmarked for 3.8.x in the run-up to the release: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr;query_format=advanced;status_whiteboard=3.8;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;bug_status=NEEDINFO While we want to keep strings and UI stable on the 3.x branches, the hard code feeze is lifted now. So, when you come back from the release party, have a look at those bugs and patches... Matthias ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: GSoC Internship Ideas
Thank you, Allan! We need to fill our ideas page (so far we only have 12 ideas listed) and triage the ideas by this Friday, so please don't delay with adding ideas you are willing to mentor! https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2013/Ideas Being a GSoC mentor is a great way to support budding GNOME developers and share our free software values with them. Also, we work hard to pre-qualify everyone we accept, and last year mentors were happy with the work of the majority (19 of 28) of the students. Thanks, Marina - Original Message - From: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com To: desktop-devel-list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:29:15 PM Subject: GSoC Internship Ideas Hi all, Marina mentioned to me that we still need more ideas for this year's GSoC [1]. If you would like to mentor someone, please get in touch: it's really important that we have enough mentors and internship ideas. If you are willing to be a mentor but aren't sure about what you'd work on, I have a bunch of ideas that might be of interest: - A typing break app - we lost the old typing break setting in the jump to 3.x. Having a break timer app would be a nice replacement - https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Potential/BreakTimer - Multimonitor bug fixing - we have lots of multimonitor bugs, and I'm sure that we could bundle some of them together to make a nice project - https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012/Multimonitor - PackageKit bug fixing. I think that Jon has a bunch of UX bugs that - could make a nice project. - Application paging in the overview - this will work better with the new folders, and will help with spatial memory. See https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/shell/application-picker/centered-grid3/vertical-pager.png for one idea of how it could look - Implement Cheese redesign. Cheese needs a bit of love, and we have some mockups that we could work from - https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Cheese - Avatar selection - this would be an avatar selection dialog that could be used by Initial Setup, Contacts, User Accounts and Chat. We could also try and pull avatars from online accounts (which might be a good project in its own right). See bug - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687871 - A new time and date panel for the control center. We have mockups for this: https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/DateAndTime - Contacts - I could easily come up with a list of UX bugs. We've also talked about offline editing being a potential internship. - Transfers - this is intended to be a kind of integrated download and transfers manager. It would provide the UI for downloads from Web, transfers from Chat and copy/move operations for Files: https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Transfers Let me know if you're interested in mentoring any of these. Allan [1] https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2013/Ideas -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
