Sorry I forgot to cc LyX-devel. Here's my reply to Cyrille's feedback. Xueqing Shan
Begin forwarded message: > From: Vanderbilt <xueqing.s...@vanderbilt.edu> > Date: April 29, 2013, 9:09:11 PM CDT > To: Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> > Subject: Re: Proposal submitted; suggestions wanted > > Hi Cyrille, > > Thank you so much for your suggestions. I'm a very inexperienced programmer > just finishing my second college computer science course 201, but Rob said he > thinks (i think so too) I'll be capable to work on this project. So please > forgive me for silly mistakes... > > I'm planning to put the basic learning part in week 1 and begin to work on > LyX deliverables from the beginning of the second week and explain in more > details. Could you please give me more details on LyX model? I have the > feeling that learning Qt will help me understand LyX model. > > Thank you, > Xueqing Shan > > On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> wrote: > >> Hi Xueqing, >> Thank you for your proposal. I am not the expert in this project, but what I >> found surprising is that you allocate a few weeks towards building a >> Notepad-like application. >> >> This will include some work on using Qt-related build tools, which are not >> entirely the same as for LyX (the build process for LyX uses autotools). So >> you will spend some time working with tools, and producing code, that does >> not contribute directly to the project goal. >> >> If you take a different route, using LyX right from the start, you have a >> working build process (although getting the Mac OS X build requires careful >> selection of the right options, as documented), and working code. From that, >> you can build your new editor incrementally by creating a variant of the >> existing editor. >> >> In any case, the learning part of your project is only two weeks, so it is >> not so significant. But it may be useful to focus on learning Qt >> features/tools that are used in LyX itself. >> >> Rob, any comments on that? >> >> In any case, please consider more details on the early work that actually >> focuses on the final deliverable. You currently have two sentences on that >> in week two (day 4 - 5), and not much at all for weeks 3 - 5. As weeks 3 - 5 >> is where your actual work on LyX starts in earnest, please give us a more >> detailed plan. >> >> Because your work involves a user interface, a GUI mock-up may also be >> useful. >> >> Vanderbilt wrote: >>> Hi community members, >>> >>> I submitted my proposal but forgot to post the link to the community. Here >>> it is: >>> >>> https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/shanx/1 >>> >>> I used another email address (shanxueq...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:shanxueq...@gmail.com>) when submitting the proposal. I would >>> greatly appreciate if anyone can give me some advice. Thank you! >>> >>> Xueqing Shan >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Cyrille Artho - http://artho.com/ >> Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision >> for the limits of the world. >> -- Schopenhauer >>
