2018-03-03 3:42 GMT-07:00 Carlos Vega García carlosvegagc@gmail.com:
My name is Carlos Vega and I am an IT student from Canary Islands. I am emailing in reference to an idea that I have for Wine that I would like to do with GSOC.
Hola Carlos, y ¡gracias por tu interés en Wine! All Wine GSoC applicants must submit a patch to wine-devel (and presumably, have it accepted) before beginning GSoC. Find some small bug in Wine or something to improve and send a patch to show your skills. You'll want to read through the following pages:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ
https://wiki.winehq.org/Submitting_Patches
https://wiki.winehq.org/Summer_Of_Code#Wine_and_the_Google_Summer_of_Code
For example, Wine's Spanish translation needs at least 377 strings translated or updated. This could be a good thing to work on to familiarize yourself with Wine's patch acceptance process. I can give you some suggestions and review your work if you want to help with translation.
For at least a week I’ve been looking how does Wine works. First, I have to say that it has been done an incredible job. When I was using it, I thought that it would be great to have a place to focus the main utilities of Wine.
This could be like a “Start Menu” where you can access to: the explorer, configurations, online help, cmd, installed apps (if it is possible); without needing to use the terminal. ¿Why? Because in my opinion this could be make Wine more easy to use for non-experts users in computers and more friendly for a touch environment.
If I get selected to work in this organization, I would like to do this and update explorer.exe. I think that is a great opportunity for trying de experience of being part of an open source project and working in a project that I could use a lot in my time.
Wine actually already has a basic Start Menu if run with `wine explorer /desktop=shell`. I think it would be nice to have more stuff in it, but I don't think that just working on the Start Menu is a big enough project for Summer of Code. If you really want to help with the Start Menu, you will have to pick some other smallish projects to do as well.
You might, however, like to add drag-and-drop and other functionality to Wine's file browser. This project is on the official page of suggested projects: https://wiki.winehq.org/Summer_Of_Code#Make_explorer.exe_more_useful
Choose something that's interesting to you. ¡Buena suerte!
-Alex