I've submitted an idea for System Settings: Improve handling for touchpads and mice with Libinput

https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#Improve_handling_for_touchpads_and_mice_with_Libinput

This is pretty important going forward since most distros are shipping with Libinput now, but our users aren't able to configure their devices without resorting to editing xorg config files using a different driver.

Nate


On 01/15/2018 06:13 AM, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
Hi, Valorie!

I have just edited the list of Krita ideas, now we have 8 ideas, 4 of which are low-hanging fruits with localized optimizations of the code. I hope that will help people who do not want to learn all half-million lines of Krita code.

Speaking truly, I think I understand why there is so little effort from people with the ideas. Since the last year Google forbids students to apply more than 2 times, it means that most of the applicants will be newcomers and, most probably, they will not be able to prepare some extensive proposal/design for a project. It is just too difficult to prepare a good proposal for a project so big in size. So it might be that the quality of last year proposals discouraged people from doing this work again.

The only way how we can solve the issue is to prepare very scope-limited tasks, such that the students would not need to learn all the code (in our case we just added AVX optimizations, which are limited to a scope of a couple of classes). But that is not always possible or makes sense for the some projects.


On 15.01.2018 03:39, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
I'm very discouraged to see so little movement on this. After skipping GCi this past fall, are we now also considering skipping GSoC? Or downsizing the number of students we are mentoring?

Without Ideas we will not get students. More important, we must complete the Org application soon, and the Ideas page is the core of that application.

This is good for your team and your project, in the long run. It brings in new contributors and fresh ideas.

If you need some guidance, please read https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html

I should have linked to it for the last email.

Valorie

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com <mailto:valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com>> wrote:


    Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors,

    TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas
    <https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas>; read
    https://community.kde.org/GSoC. Now.

    Every year, we've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC,
    and so now is the time for organizations to apply[1]. We have
    begun to write our application, and  that means that our Ideas
    page needs to be filled NOW, because that is the prime
    consideration for the GSoC team once the Org Applications deadline
    has passed.

    The quality of our ideas and the guidance they give our students
    are the most important part of our application. Please begin
    filling in your ideas now if you have not already, and ensure that
    that page is comprehensive, accurate and attractive. Including
    screenshots and other images is allowed, if it enriches the idea
    for a project. *Please ensure complete information about how to
    contact the team*; this is crucial.

    Also, take a look at the landing page
    https://community.kde.org/GSoC. Experienced mentors agree that:

    1. commits must be made before the student proposal is submitted,
    and linked on that proposal, and

    2. that regular communication from the student must be initiated
    by the student at least weekly, and we expect daily or nearly
    daily communication with the team in a more informal way.

    Be sure to point students to that information, as this should
    lower the number of proposals, while raising the quality.

    1. https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
    <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline>

    PS: If your team has an Idea, ensure that you have mentors for it,
    and that those mentors are subscribe to KDE-Soc-Mentor list.
    Remove any ideas without mentors available, please. Now, before
    you forget!

    Valorie



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