Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 22.04.2013 um 22:43 schrieb Ivan Vučica:

> Ping! Student registrations have started. Any prospective mentors?
> 
> (Crossposting this to discuss-gnustep.)
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> 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.

Yes, it is here including a DataBuilder - but the model files are not Cocoa 
compatible :-(

http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/showdetail.php?app=94

> - 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 address@hidden; 
> 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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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 - address@hidden
> 
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> Ivan Vučica - address@hidden
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