[Sugar-devel] Timing problem with GCI tasks

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:45 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Walter,
>
> OK.  The GCI tasks are supposed to be two hours work for an experienced
> developer and quantity of tasks completed counts (two things I only learned
> today.  I should have read the mentoring instructions more carefully).
> Splitting up the tasks for GTK3 might improve the situation for Aneesh.
>
> The other tasks aren't as large.

And some are much larger. The problem is, it is not possible to make
every task the same in terms of either time or difficultly. Not every
task can be broken down into small bites. As far as the overall
distribution of difficultly, I think the GTK3 manual is well within a
std dev of the mean.

-walter

>
> James Simmons
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> He gets create for the ports themselves, so I think this is a
>> non-issue for him. I think he dropped out because he can only have one
>> task open at a time and plans to reclaim once he has some examples in
>> hand.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:09 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I just got a posting from Aneesh.  He has given up on the GTK3 porting,
>> > but
>> > he did post patches for two examples.  I think the problem is that there
>> > are
>> > too many samples to port to make a good GCC task.  I didn't realize that
>> > they get credit based on number of tasks completed when I wrote mine up.
>> > To
>> > make it a better deal for Aneesh we can do a couple of things:
>> >
>> > 1).  We don't need every example to be ported.  The two he did plus one
>> > more
>> > that includes toolbars (Maybe Sugar Commander, because that uses a fair
>> > amount of GTK) could be one task.  We leave the others as exercises for
>> > the
>> > student).
>> >
>> > 2).  Writing the chapter on how to do it could be a second task.
>> >
>> > James Simmons
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Chris,
>> >>
>> >> It looks like I have Ksitij Kumar doing the WebKit task and Aneesh
>> >> Dogra
>> >> doing the GTK3 port.  Aneesh has made a clone of my reposotory for code
>> >> examples here:
>> >>
>> >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/myo-sugar-activities-examples
>> >>
>> >> Ksitij has given me a PDF of a new chapter for the book, which actually
>> >> looks pretty good but we need the content here:
>> >>
>> >> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
>> >>
>> >> I also wanted code samples to be in the Git repository, assuming that
>> >> the
>> >> student is familiar with Git as Aneesh obviously is.  Otherwise they
>> >> can put
>> >> them in a Zip file and I'll get them into Git myself.
>> >>
>> >> I'd update the task descriptions to mention this but I don't have the
>> >> authority.
>> >>
>> >> I'm thinking that we might split up Aneesh's task into two:
>> >>
>> >> 1). Port stuff to GTK3.
>> >>
>> >> 2). Write chapter on what you did.
>> >>
>> >> That way Aneesh could get credit for two tasks, plush credit as an
>> >> author.
>> >>
>> >> James Simmons
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Chris Leonard
>> >> <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Chris,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I sent a similar email to Santiago.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I still haven't heard from my other two mentees.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > James Simmons
>> >>>
>> >>> Which two mentees?  On which two tasks?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I think this one is waiting for your review.
>> >>>
>> >>> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8019215
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
>



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