On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 01:14 +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
Hi all,
As you may know yesterday was the pens down for summer of code 2008 Students are still allowed to write code, but it won't count for the mentors evaluation any more.
I intend to clean up and make sure almost everything I've written can get merged, it just may be a little slower now that school is starting.
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?
I greatly enjoyed summer of code, and I would like to think that I emerged a much better programmer than when I started, and yes, it was a lot of fun. A lot of bugs I saw for Gdiplus were installer bugs, so hopefully many more applications are installable under Wine -- but when people discover that there may be even more bugs opened :-)
While it can be annoying to have a patchset rejected five times, it's satisfying to fix myself it rather than see "based on a patch from..."; also I love the quality standards and peer-review that Wine has, as that made the code a lot easier to work with, because just about everything was in good shape when I got it, and I hope that the next person who looks at Gdiplus will think so too.
I will try to stay a part of the Wine community, but now that Summer of Code is done I have a lot fewer itches to scratch (Quicktime is my new target, but I have no idea how long that will take with school).
All in all, its been a blast. I would like to thank my mentor, Lei for helping me when I was completely stuck, Alexandre for dealing with me over IRC when I ask "why?", and everyone else who's posted comments saying "You can't do it like that".
I also believe that students will have to fill in a final evaluation form as well, so get writing. ;-)
Cheers, Maarten.