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



On Mo, 2010-06-21 at 02:08 +0200, Stéphane Maniaci wrote:
> 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)

that is really really cool! 

you should also add an option to search for photos under a cc licence. i
always use this page for photos when i do presentations:
http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/

>  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
>  ;

make sure to prepare a screencast!

>  • 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.
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