On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 05:51:06 schrieb AshokR: >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce Google Summer >> of Code 2012 should be announced soon . Are we planning to apply? Project >> ideas? I can help with the application. > > I'm interested. I'm not yet completely sure about my time budget this summer, > but I think it's just a very great opportunity to work with motivated > students > and get something interesting going. > > I'm probably available as a mentor. I wouldn't like to be the main project > administrator again - somebody else? Also, who might be interested in > mentoring some work here? > > More information about the project and what the expectations are can be > found > here [1] [2]. > > Best Regards, > > Christian > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors > [2] http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/what-makes-a-good-mentor/
I've got a fair amount of travel this summer, but I should have a good connection through most of it, so I can mentor again. I don't think I'll have time to admin as well, unfortunately. There's plenty of testing and refactoring work available for students. For the GUI-inclined, we desperately need a rewrite of the register so that we can get rid of the libgnome(canvas) dependency. There are two possible approaches: GtkTreeView is a bit riskier because it doesn't quite match how register works. One attempt was apparently made for GSOC a couple of years ago. The safer approach would be to just rewrite what we have with cairo calls replacing the canvas stuff. It's a bit lower-level, but I've seen other Cairo code and it doesn't look too awful. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
