Re: [Gimp-developer] Accepting GSOC Students

[Michael Schumacher]

Campbell Barton wrote:

> in a nutshell- these seem obvious.

Indeed, but maybe some details aren't obvious...

>   1. They must be able to compile the software   (a few students ended
>  loosing time by not having a propper dev environment)

They must be able to build current CVS. This is different from building
a stable version or even an older 2.3 tarball, as the required versions
of Glib and GTK+ have been raised and additional tools are required as well.

>   2. They must be able to submit a patch-(for blender, we are even
>  requiring they write a small patch and submit, as a requirement
>  for being an applicant )

How did you handle applying the patches? From
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/SOC_2006_ideas, I see
that Blender is requesting weekly status reports, are patch
reviews/commits coupled to this?

>   4. Must be able to devote full time. no summer jobs, courses.   (had
>  some problems with this also)

How did you solve them? Did you ask the students to devote more time on
the SoC project, or did you have to cancel some projects?


Michael

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[Gimp-developer] Accepting GSOC Students

[Campbell Barton]

Hi, with Blender3D we did GSOC last year and I was a mentor for one of 
the projects.

Some decisions have been made this year as to how we filter applicants.

in a nutshell- these seem obvious.

  1. They must be able to compile the software   (a few students ended
 loosing time by not having a propper dev environment)
  2. They must be able to submit a patch-(for blender, we are even
 requiring they write a small patch and submit, as a requirement
 for being an applicant )
  3. They have to know the language they are programming in.   (durr.
 but we had 1 guy who hadnt used C before, he had used other
 languages tho and did complete the project, but this is not ideal)
  4. Must be able to devote full time. no summer jobs, courses.   (had
 some problems with this also)

for full docs see.
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/SOC_2006_ideas


I hope gimp can get gsoc, no doubt many of the guys at google even use 
the gimp sometimes.

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