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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > -- > ZeMarmot open animation film > http://film.zemarmot.net > Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/ > Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot > Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp- > developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
