There was indeed substantial interest and sufficient mentors, so a GCI application was submitted. Thank you for the overwhelming response! More details on mentoring later.
To set expectations, I will not be surprised if we don't get selected this year. It’s our turn for veteran rotation, i.e., to not get selected because we’ve participated several years in a row (same goes for GSoC). However, we have preparation work regardless. We need any and all hands urgently; time sensitive. A few things to get in place before the end of November: 1) Convert main website to WordPress and new theme. 2) Review and apply/reject all pending patches. 3) Define more GCI tasks. More on this later. Multiple people have been working the website from different angles. Jacob, can it be brought to completion this month? Even minimal works for me. It’s more important that the new site display info about BRL-CAD (main features and wiki data), not so much our existing News blog that hasn’t been updated in a year. Hitesh, how’s your documentation module coming along? Who has the time and experience to see this through within the next two weeks? Reviewing patches is probably the most work but the most needed. Plus, ANYONE can help. Review any pending patch (that you didn’t author and that doesn’t already have a reviewer’s comment) and see if it works against trunk. Leave a comment/feedback if it works and has no issues. If it’s an old patch that doesn’t apply, update it so it applies cleanly. If there is a blatant problem, leave feedback. Note that you don’t need commit access to do any of this, but performing reviews can help you get commit access yourself. I’d really like to see (via wiki or e-mail) a list of 2-hour tasks for the OGV, Benchmark, and Materials Database projects. They also need to get set up on brlcad.org for production use. If they are well-defined and appropriately scoped, I’d very much like to include them in our list of GCI tasks. We also need some cross-pollination tasks that pertain to OpenSCAD, LibreCAD, and STEPcode. But really, the priority first are our pending patches and the website. Cheers! Sean p.s. Also want to get sources updated to space indentation and the VM image updated, but they can't happen until most patches are applied. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
