GSoC students, By now, we're on our fifth day into the GSoC coding timeframe, so hopefully everyone is busy writing code and having fun! I have several comments and requests to make of everyone so we can keep having fun... :)
First up, several of you STILL do not yet have commit access, so really need to step up and focus on this. No excuses. If your patches haven't yet been reviewed, you may be okay but read over some of the recently closed patches for common mistakes and recheck your work. There is a patch review backlog due to our recent major release, but we'll be getting through most of them quickly now. You can help by making your patches as small and simple and perfect as possible. Pay attention to the little details. Thank you to those of you that quickly updated the wiki page with your info. They all need a little work, though... Not your fault, I wasn't very specific but now we can get more detailed. This is the page we're going to send out in an announcement so it needs to look good and be consistent. The title and summary don't need to be the same as what you had on your application. The title should be short, not a long word-packed description. The summary should say more than the title, but not be the paragraph from your Melange description. The summary should be no more than one informative sentence. Ask one of the other students to describe your project in one sentence perhaps. Mohit: shorter title and slightly longer summary (proper sentence); Wu: longer summary; Check: shorter title, shorter summary (variation on title), and dead user page link; Kesha and Vlad: shorter summary. Kesha, since you've introduced a nice clean but different template, perhaps you can update the other student's profiles so they're all the same. Still waiting on Harmanpreet and Isaac to add your profiles. Please have this done before Tuesday so we have time to review and annou Logs! Most of you have this down solid so far, but three are already in danger of a warning for not communicating a status update(!)... Three notices will get you failed, so please do remember to update your log daily, not weekly. Even if just to say "didn't work today, went to the beach" so we know what's up. You are all reminded to be very vocal while you're working. Talk with others here on the mailing list and via IRC. Your commit message is also useful communication, so commit very frequently (not just when you're "done" with something). If you haven't been updating your log and you don't have commit access, this is a wake up call to improve your participation. If you have any issue, please do let me or anyone else know. Otherwise, looking forward to seeing your commits throughout the day! Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
