[Adium-devl] Summer of Code '09

[BJ Homer]

I did unit testing for SoC with Adium last year.  I certainly didn't get as
much done as I'd hoped to, but I could pick that up again if that's of
interest.  I've already got some idea of where to start, etc.

-BJ Homer

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Christopher Forsythe <chris at growl.info>wrote:

> I think the difference is that when you do a SoC project, you're doing
> contract work, and the expectations of the end result are much higher than
> say, a side project you work on in your spare time while you learn how to
> code. This isn't to downplay the importance of those side projects nor
> learning to code, it's just to emphasize the difference between the two
> scenarios.
>
> Also, congrats on taking a good first step. :)
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Nicolas Bellville <nico.be at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  I'll soon begin to learn programming with Python: one of my teachers told
>> me about a free book about Python, which I downloaded. It'll take time to
>> finish it and then to learn C and objective C but I'll seriously work at it
>> in my spare time. Nicolas
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:21:27 -0800
>> From: thegundamguru at yahoo.com
>> To: adium-devl at adiumx.com
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Adium-devl] Summer of Code '09
>>
>>  I know I've not been active in the development so far, as I am new to the
>> community, but as I read through the code and figure out what's going on
>> I'll be trying to contribute more.
>> Darren
>>
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>> *From:* Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com>
>> *To:* Adium Development mailing list <adium-devl at adiumx.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:34:03 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Adium-devl] Summer of Code '09
>>
>> +1. The only other thought I have is if we really have a couple of solid
>> ideas, we could sign up and only take (at most) 2 students, and be prepared
>> to walk away if we don't have really strong self-motivated students
>> applying.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
>>
>> > The same thing is happening to Growl as well (hence my speaking up). My
>> > opinion is that part of the problem is all of the easy problems are
>> gone,
>> > and part of it is that it's just busy during this time of year. There's
>> not
>> > a lot of new developers coming forward like there used to be as well for
>> > both projects.
>> >
>> > I'd suggest telling google to give all of the mentor spots to pidgin,
>> since
>> > that'll help Adium. As to the drop off in activity, I think a discussion
>> > regarding this has to happen at some point to help the project move
>> forward,
>> > otherwise it'll just continue. I'd say new thread on that though.
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:35 PM, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>      So, it's happening. Personally, I don't think we're in any
>> >> reasonable state to participate. The graphs at
>> >> https://www.ohloh.net/p/adium/contributors paint a depressing picture
>> of
>> >> the project right now, and even when we *did* have more active
>> contributors
>> >> last summer, I don't feel we (I?) did as good a job mentoring as we
>> have in
>> >> previous years. With luck I'll be getting a job in the relatively near
>> >> future, which will inevitably lead to my commit rate dropping off some.
>> At
>> >> that point we'll have basically nobody working consistently on Adium.
>> >>
>> >>      Anyone have some light to counter my gloom with? ;)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>                              David
>> >>
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