Re: soc report for photobooth-like application for the GNOME-desktop (cheese)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le lundi 07 mai 2007, à 12:07 +0200, daniel g. siegel a écrit :
> hi there!
> 
> nobody has sent his report until now to the list, so im proud to be the
> first ;)

Congratulations! Now we can start making fun of all the other SoC
participants who might be late :-)

> ==done==
> i already have started programming a while ago. i have reused raphaels
> gui and started from scratch. for now i have a program, which can take
> pictures from the webcam, save them, and reload them. see a screenshot
> from today here [1] (and im looking like this, because there were too
> many parties last week..). following libraries were used: 
> - gstreamer to get a picture off the webcam and to display it
> - glade to load the ui
> - gnome-vfs to load and save files
> - gdk-pixbuf to encode to jpeg/png-format
> 
> i also have a darcs repository, where you can check out my code. simply
> do a darcs get http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel/dev/cheese
> if you dont have darcs, you can browse the code with your favourite
> browser. go to [2].

Looks great!

Just a small note for other students: Daniel already started coding
because he'll be a bit busy in June with exams (IIRC). So don't worry if
you have the impression you're late when you read Daniel's report:
there's really no reason to worry.

> ==will be done==
> the next step will be to objectify code with gobject. im right into
> reading me in. after that, i will integrate some of the effects, which
> gstreamer offers me.
> 
> ==problems i ran into==
> well, they were all of the same kind. the gnome-apis provide a superb
> api-description, but if you never worked with a certain library or with
> a part of the library, you have to take a gnome-program and look into
> the source. there you have to watch out for the right function and how
> it works and so on. its tedious, so if you if it is the case, that you
> are having a lot of free time, please write some examples or tutorials
> (yes, i know gtk-demo already ;) )

Maybe that's something you could contribute in the future? :-)

> ==my mentor==
> my mentor is raphael slinckx and he just rocks (raf, i dont care that
> _you_ are reading this ;) and sorry, that i cant print the "e"-character
> with two points). he helps me a lot and is around, when i need some tips
> and hints. so, dear soc-admins, if you want, that i have a nice summer,
> please dont change my mentor. 

Raphaël is sitting next to me right now, and he's just sitting there
doing nothing. No, really, he doesn't rock that much. And he's just
eating some weird stuff in spanish restaurants. Now, please excuse me: I
need to start running before he sees this mail ;-)

> ==open questions==
> i have some questions, which could also be interestinge for the other
> students. it would be nice, if you could answer them.
> 
> - what about the release period? eric raymond says "release early,
>   release often". now, should i make releases or is an open accessible  
>   repository enough? 

I believe it'd be a good idea to do some releases. Maybe one every two
or three weeks?

> - what about patches? may i integrate patches from other developers? i
>   mean, in the soc-program, i should create the application, not anybody
>   else. (did not happen yet, only to know) 

If the patches are small patches, then I'd say it's okay. The important
part is that you do the big and difficult parts. Having some small
contributions sound okay to me.

> - what about the build system? i know, autotools is the defacto
>   standard, but do you force me to use autotools? (well, there isnt
>   anything else around)

Autotools is pretty much the standard, so yes, you should really use it.
It's not fun, but you only have to do it once.

Thanks!

Vincent

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