[Soc-2014-dev] Weekly Report #05 - Viewport FX III

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi Jason,
I am sorry for your grandmother, and it is totally understandable that 
you wanted to be with her. Hope she gets better!

The key here is just communication, you can always mail your mentor 
privately about what's going on. As long as we know, we can figure 
something out.
Regarding Reviews, in IRC you find people who can help you. Campbell 
knows GHOST as far as I know, he is around in IRC often. Psy-Fi is also 
there. Just poke them. :)

Best regards,
Thomas


Am 23.06.2014 03:30, schrieb Jason Wilkins:
> I agree this is going poorly.
>
> First, I'd like to lay out what I plan to do in order to turn this 
> around.  I'm going to put in at least 12 hours a day until I have my 
> work from the previous years in a form that can be merged into master. 
>  This will start on Tuesday after I've returned from my trip.  I'll be 
> on IRC the entire time I'm working if anybody wants to talk to me.
>
> We need to review the GHOST refactor I submitted last week.  I have 
> not gotten any feedback on that.  I've written more code based on that 
> for OSX, but I'm hesitant to continue with Linux if there are changes 
> the basic design that need to be made.
>
> Secondly, if you would indulge me, I'd like to explain the reason for 
> this weeks problems.  I did not say anything because it is personal 
> and due to my slow start I was feeling like I had ran out of excuses 
> and just needed to get the work done without sounding like I was 
> making a lot of excuses.  I'm probably more frustrated than anybody. 
>  If I fail at GSoC, who cares, it is just money, but I really want 
> this project to succeed.
>
> That said,
>
> My grandmother had a stroke and has been hospitalized.  I made a trip 
> in order to see her.  I was afraid it might be my last chance.  In my 
> mind I was imagining you guys shaking your heads and sighing if I told 
> you this so I just made up my mind to get as much work done as I could.
>
> I thought I'd be able to work just as well, but I was wrong.  I 
> brought my MacBook thinking I could at least work on the changes to 
> GHOST for OSX, but I'm not really good at developing on the Mac.  I 
> ended up not getting much done.
>
> Bottom line?  I'm going home and I'm going to get this work done as 
> quickly as I can.  If I fail GSoC, fine, I probably deserve it.  I 
> still plan on finishing this up in one form or another.
>