[Sugar-devel] Timing problem with GCI tasks

[Walter Bender]

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
>>
>>
>



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Walter Bender
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