[brlcad-devel] GCI preparations

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

I’ve written up some of the main tasks needing attention before GCI begins in a couple weeks:

http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Code_In/2016/TODO <http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Code_In/2016/TODO>

Anyone care to lead any of those tasks, write your name onto the wiki entry.  We have just a little under two weeks before GCI begins to get set up properly.  Fortunately, we have something like 20+ mentors this year!  With a little help from everyone, we should be able to get some really useful work done in a really short amount of time.

We need to get started on topic brainstorming.  Ideas welcome.  General rule of thumb for this year is that coding tasks need to constitute about 1-2 hours of work for a core dev.  Other tasks should be in the 2-4 hour ballpark (for an experienced contributor).  There is a special “beginner task” category to help participants where you don’t assume anything, and the tasks help them do the non-beginner tasks (e.g., download, compile, and install BRL-CAD is a canonical beginner task).  We can start the brainstorming here and then migrate priority topics into a spreadsheet.  Main trust areas should align with a specific area of work as previously mentioned: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk/doc/STRATEGY <http://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk/doc/STRATEGY> 

Thanks Costa for OpenCL-related major tasks set (see #6 in the TODO).  That’s a great idea and aligns with our STRATEGY. 

Cheers!
Sean