[haiku-development] Re: Getting ready for GSoC (and Outreachy)
- From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 08:00:34 +0000
How about (starting to) implement a system-wide spellchecking service
like what Michael Crawford aimed for with WordServices [1] in the BeOS
days? I don't have a clue about how and where to start, so I can't
provide any deails for this idea...
Maybe this service could even be extended in the future with some
(online) translation service.
That would be great. As a starting point we would need to know what's in
this github repo and wether it has everything useful, or only half the code.
- Discussing existing ideas (maybe some should be removed)
I feel like the "Other applications" idea category (i.e. improve some
app in HaikuArchives etc.) is a bit too wide and far away from
operating system coding.
We are open to that (for example, work on TracGit last year, on porting
Swift, or SDL2, and maybe it could benefit work on LibreOffice, on Koder
getting a code completion engine, etc. There are many interesting tasks
outside Haiku itself that GSoC students could contribute to.
It would be nice to have some specific ideas, but they can only come from
interested mentors in the respective projects.
Note that Outreachy allows non-coding ideas as well (UI/UX design,
etc), it would be nice to have some of these available too. They may
also help us finding a mentor to help with these.
If Haiku Inc. decides to fund Outreachy or there's a successful
donation drive for it, I expect the propsed project to be well vetted
WRT its usefulness to the project. Contrary to GSoC, it's now "our"
money. We should end up with something useful. I know, it's about
trying to garner new longtime devs, but why shouldn't we try to have
both?
I wouldn't want to see someone working on something like SuperPrefs
which seemed to be the result of a misunderstanding about what it was
supposed to be. That project didn't give us a new dev or something
useful...
No matter where the money comes from, that's what we should aim for.
Btw, I have rewritten the "input preferences" idea to be clearer, and
I hope mentors will do a better job of explaining the Haiku vision to
their students next time.
This year I will also not use a vote for selecting students. I think we
can discuss the proposals on the mailing list and decide which ones we
want to accept, rather than ranking them and then trying to fill in all
the slots Google gives us.
--
Adrien.
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