[haiku-development] Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:22:33 +0100

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> "Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Now that we have been officially accepted, are we going to ask students 
> > to fix a bug or something similar to make sure they are up to the task?
> > If so, we should add this info, plus the list of easy bugs, to the GSoC 
> > 2008 web page.
> 
> I'm not sure there really is a list of *small* bugs; of course there are 
> lots of bugs hidden in our code, though :-)
> I was thinking that maybe it would be a good idea to let the students 
> resolve one or more of the various simpler "TODO" comments distributed 
> all over the source code. Many of those are easy to do, but might still 
> require you to become used to our API and coding style.

Someone needs to compile a list though... I know I am stating the 
obvious... but...

If anyone has suggestions, please mention them, it would be a start.

> "JiSheng Zhang" <jszhang3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm a student all the same, I was just wondering if I can join haiku's 
> > gsoc
> > again this year :P
> 
> I guess students that already participated last year, and did good work 
> don't need to pass another test to become a candidate, at least ;-)

That's what I was thinking too. Did you want to work on the DV Media 
Plug-In, JiSheng?

Best regards,
-Stephan

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