Re: [Gimp-developer] GSoC project query

[Bill Skaggs <weskaggs gmail com>]

One shouldn't necessarily write off the value of GSOC projects. For
example, on-canvas text editing resulted from a GSOC project. The key to a
useful project, I believe, is to have a limited and well-defined objective
that does not require a deep understanding of major parts of the GIMP code
base. It isn't impossible to come up with projects of that type.

Bill

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 5:56 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> For the record, our would-be intern had a job proposal, and therefore had
> to cancel his GSoC proposition. He even asked me if that is OK, and
> obviously I told him to do what's best for him!
>
> Anyway this was quite interesting to see a bit the possibilities for GSoC.
> Maybe next year, we'll try "for real", telling people beforehand we wish to
> participate, etc. If once again I am the only available mentor, I might
> once more integrate into another project, like GNU.
>
> Also for anyone disappointed, I would like to reassure you: if there is one
> thing that should be learned from past GSoC participation of GIMP, it is
> that GSoC is far from the best way to improve a software. Personally I am
> mostly interested in it because it is nice to help some students discover
> real development world and mentor them. And maybe these students will even
> stay regular contributors *afterwards*! If we can get a few cool patches in
> the process, this is cool. But this event should not be considered as a
> cheap way to get code. Any project which relies mostly on this to improve
> will mostly get hardly maintainable code.
>
> When I see how some people seem to see GSoC as a miraculous event which we
> should absolutely join, I am a bit dubious on how you envision this event.
> Whatever your job is, picture yourself when you were student. Now imagine
> that you suddenly dropped your student self into your current position
> which you are in after years of hard work and learning the job though
> actual real-life projects, successes and failures. Do you really believe
> that your student self would have just revolutionnized your current job in
> just a few months? I hope you don't say yes, because that would be a bit
> sad if you don't believe you evolved since you were students! ;p
>
> In the end, whatever the regular developers do in the same time as any
> intern is 100 times more important, and I remind that some of us (including
> myself) are even trying to make a living from GIMP development through
> crowdfunding with quite weak success for now. Just a small reminder so that
> people know they can crowdfund us (in case of my own project, all links in
> my signature) which will be more efficient for any of the goals you
> proposed in this thread or others than what GSoC could bring us (even if
> still a cool event, but for helping good students mostly, as I said, not
> for magically cheap, fast and quality code).
>
> Have fun everyone!
>
> Jehan
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Joseph Bupe <joseph bupe gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I would be happy to see free-angled guides implemented. These can be
> handy
> > in many situations for graphics designing.
> >
> > Something started a couple of years back
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344109
> >
> > On 6 March 2018 at 17:21, C R <cajhne gmail com> wrote:
> > > Is it possible to task the student(s) with getting more GEGL
> integration?
> > > GIMP really needs that to speed up image processing and previews.
> > >
> > > I mean like REALLY REALLY needs that more than just about any new toys
> > > they can dream up. :)
> > >
> > > My 2p.
> > > -C
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
> > > <alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:04 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Having read the above I had the idea that it could be worth having a
> > > student
> > > > > work on one or more of the previous GSoC projects
> > > >
> > > > Google is usually extremely unhappy with this.
> > > >
> > > > Alex
>
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