+1 for getting Windows build scripts working properly.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Robert Matusewicz <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I bet OIIO could benefit from GSoC this year. We have 93 open issues that > could definitely be addressed by GSoC students. One of the students could > "give some love" to IV - 14 open issues+ it needs some performance > improvement - smart person with the help of mentor could made a nice > project that would address those (most of them, if not all). > > What I miss is some great build script that would allow to build OIIO on > Windows systems. Currently, it's huge pain and it is a reason why I stopped > looking for Windows build (and unfortunatelly don't have time to invest in > it). Possibly, this project could be done with integrating cpack. > > I would welcome also students that would wan't to finish/improve one of > the past projects. Chad proposed one, I think there are some other projects > from the past that need some attention? PSD plugin? Image algo? > > Finally, I think OIIO have some cool client-projects. Maybe they have some > idea/needs? > > PS: I could be a mentor for one of the projects. > > Robert > > > > > 2013/3/20 Larry Gritz <[email protected]> > >> The deadline is in about 10 days for applying to be a mentoring >> organization for GSoC 2013. Although we've been very fortunate to >> participate for the last 4 years and it's truly been a huge boon to OIIO, I >> think we should give serious thought to whether or not to participate this >> year. >> >> As OIIO becomes a more mature code base, there are fewer and fewer >> projects that a student (usually undergrad, usually new to OIIO) could be >> expected to do to our satisfaction in the course of 12 weeks. It's a big >> investment of time on the part of the mentors (and especially me), and we >> wouldn't want to waste mentor or student time working on projects we don't >> really need or that at the end the summer would be left in a half-done >> state. >> >> On the other hand, you never know what students you'll get until you try, >> and we certainly have benefitted tremendously in the past, both in terms of >> features as well as recruiting continued contributors. So I don't want to >> write it off. But I do need you guys to let me know: >> >> * Project ideas -- what would be useful, and is likely to be completed to >> some level of satisfaction in about 12 weeks by an advanced undergraduate >> (or maybe a beginning graduate student). >> >> * Mentor volunteers -- under no circumstances can we accept more student >> projects than reliable mentors. >> >> I need a big enough selection of both to make it worth applying. Please >> reply to this thread if you have input on either. Suggesting a project >> does not commit you to being a mentor! (Though of course doing both is >> better.) >> >> I have a few ideas, which I will suggest in my own follow-ups to this >> thread. >> >> -- >> Larry Gritz >> [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Oiio-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org >> > > > > -- > My public key can be found at https://keyserver2.pgp.com > > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org > >
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