On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to request from the mentors to fill in the final evaluation form and from the students to give a final write up: What went well? Did you meet the goals you set? Did you have fun? Is there anything we can do to make wines summer of code better and do you feel like you've become part of the wine community?
Sorry for the delay in my reply, but I took a vacation at the end of the coding period.
I am happy that I got the complete main task that I wanted to get done, which was adding support for tables in richedit controls. There are some finer details that I would still like to finish, such as the selection behaviour within tables. I also need to fix a regression that has come to my attention, and review any of my patches that weren't accepted yet. All of this will be easier to do once I get back to my development computer, since I am still away from my home in Ottawa.
I was also able to spend time on plenty of other richedit control issues that weren't related to implementing tables. I found this helped me to get to know the richedit code quite well, as well as the code for wordpad which I often used for ad hoc testing. I did end up spending more time on this than expected, so I decided not to attempt working on windowless richedit controls during the GSoC coding period, however I only mentioned that I would work on windowless richedit controls if sufficient time were available.
I have also managed to learn a lot during this project, which was the first open source project that I had contributed to. I have also learned a lot more about development in a unix environment since windows was my main operating system until 9 months ago when forced myself to use linux primarily and confine windows to a VM.
I am also glad that I have the opportunity to continue working on Wine, since it is open source. Hopefully I will find enough free time during my Masters to continue contributing to Wine.