Ease : presentations for the GNOME desktop: Weekly Report 04.

[Stéphane Maniaci <stephane maniaci gmail com>]

Hi team,

Sorry for the latence, my report is available as usual as PDF and blogpost :
http://freesteph.info/public/GSoC/Ease_weekly_report_4.pdf
http://freesteph.info/post/2010/06/21/Ease-%3A-weekly-report-4

1 What I have done
This week went well, a bit slow though, but learnt a bunch of things aside.

 • Got that Flickr fetcher up and running. Still left a bunch of do, but it
 already looks like a cool feature I would use when I create presentations.
 Please have a screenshot: (see blogpost or PDF)
 Nate (my mentor), also did a cool fetcher for OpenClipart, so we’re prob-
 ably going to split out some common code in a abstract class that will
 serve for all online-resources-fetcher-based plugins ;
 • Still tried to fix “distcheck” but I get some problems with that nasty
 intltool-merge failing every time. This wasn’t worthless as it already
 had me to remove some useless/wrong macros out of the Makefile.am,
 with the help of the very nice people of #gnomefr soon. I also started
 reading the Autoconf manual. Started.
 • Set up a roadmap for 0.1 which will hopefully get approved by my
 mentor. It includes the basic set of features you expect from a pre-
 sentation editor, but all of those have to be rock solid and user-proof
 ;
 • Started writing some unit-tests for Ease, still a beginner at this but
 it’s getting better ;

 • Reported some bugs and the associated milestone, this helps to keep
 track of development.

2 What’s next
 • Finish the Flickr fetcher in every part (make it perfect) ;
 • Once it’s done, split out in some abstract class ;
 • Have a plugin infrastructure (Vala’s TypeModules) ;
 • Ease 0.1 is set for July 1st (at the moment), so it would be good to
 split a 0.1 branch in Git and polish every aspect of it ;

3 Timeline

Regarding the past week, I’m in the timing, but I could have done a lot
more, so I’ll speed up and hope to get a lot done by next week. I got the
Google package a few days ago, made me reconsider how lucky I am to be
part of this.

4 Issues/Other news
 • Had a hard time with asyncing and Vala. Thanks to the nice people of
 #vala (hey Adrien), I understand it better, but I still need some more
 experiment with that ;
 • Lost 40 minutes trying to get signals connected correctly with Glade,
 *then* I realized I was editing the wrong UI file ;
 • Is there like a student room at the GUADEC :) ?

 See you next week.

-- Stéphane.