Re: [pyblio-devel] Reg. GSoC 2014

[Germán Póo-C. <gp...@gn...>]

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 01:02 +0530, Digvijay Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I am computer science undergraduate student from IIIT Hyderabad. I
> am planning to apply for GSoC 2014 in GNOME for the project
> Pybliographer. I have started looking at the source-code and the bug
> tracker.
> I am quite proficient in Python and C++. Besides this, I have hands on
> experience with GTK3.
>
> I checked out your current gtk3 branch and was going through the
> porting work. I just wanted to enquire about a few things :
>
> 1. Is there any TODO list which can provide me the set of tasks that
> are left in the porting job?

No, there is not.  There are not many things left in order to get it
with the same functionality already provided with gtk2. Regardless,
there are some things that can be improved and to take advantage of the
new things in gtk3. However, I am of the idea of adding unit tests
before doing major changes.

You can find a list of bugs in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=pybliographer which are
mostly ported from sourceforge.

> 2. Besides this, can you provide me a starting point where I can work
> in particular to strengthen my proposal, since only a few days are
> left before the deadline.

In GSoC projects under the umbrella of GNOME, it is a must that
applicants had submitted *at least* one non-trivial patch.  That helps
to guarantee that the students got familiar with the project, have a
minimal understanding of the code base, can run it, and have the
potential.
> 
> 3. I need some help knowing how to run the gtk3 branch in develop
> mode. 

The way I do it,

$ git checkout gtk3
$ scripts/pybliographic
> 
Besides email, I will hanging around #pibliographer at irc.gnome.org.

Happy hacking!

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Germán Poo-Caamaño
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