GSoC Applicants, As the deadline nears, I know many of you are still working furiously on your proposals or anxiously awaiting feedback. Some will get feedback, some will not — feedback at this point will have little-to-no impact on your chances of getting selected. Just make your proposal the best you can make it.
What will matter is a code patch. No matter which org you are working with, you will greatly increase your chances of getting selected if you demonstrate competency towards making a useful change to your orgs existing code. Correspondingly, anyone that does not submit a code patch will be at a disadvantage. Note that this means modifying existing code that you did not write. Showing your own projects where you wrote a million lines of code is not really useful. The point of a patch is to demonstrate you’ve gone through the very basic effort of downloading sources, researched enough on your own to find something you could improve, having enough ability to modify/extend existing code in some useful and meaningful way, and then communicating that change properly back (via patch file submission and/or pull request). It shows you know how to read code too, which is generally a much more difficult skill to become proficient/efficient/productive in. Applicants have until Monday to submit patches. If you do provide one, please include a URL to the patch / pull request in a Melange comment with your proposal (which you can do before or after the deadline). See http://brlcad.org/wiki/Patches if you’ve never made a patch before, or see any of the thousands of tutorials around the web. If you need some ideas, see our TODO and/or BUGS files in our source repository. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
