[GRASS-dev] Next Tasks For The GSoC Project

[Huidae Cho]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 9:28 PM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 4:03 PM Sunveer Singh <singhsunveer54 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> What are some next tasks on which I can work to familiarize myself more
>> with the project and demonstrate my skills.
>>
>
> First, let me extend the question to other potential mentors to see if
> they have other things they would like to see for the test of skills.
>

Sunveer,

I think it depends on what you want to achieve for GSoC. Are you interested
in a project that only requires Python or C or both, or even C++? What is
your level of skills in either language? How will you be able to show your
skill level? Do you want to take one of these ideas from
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2021 or want to propose your own
project? These are some questions you may want to think about.

I'm going to solicit applications for
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2021#Parallelizationofexistingmodules
soon.

Best,
Huidae


> As for myself, although I already fixed the most needed pieces [1, 2] of
> the other testing-related GSoC idea [3], the test of skills still applies:
>
> *Fix failing tests and/or write new tests (more is better). Alternatively,
> addressing a smaller problem in the testing framework is a good task, too.*
>
> Adding new tests is something you are familiar with from the past, so you
> can make a new submission which matches your current level of skills.
> Fixing existing tests has a value for the documentation-based test project
> you are planning to submit as some of the tasks might be similar. Tests in
> both grass and grass-addons repos count. I don't see any "smaller problem
> in the testing framework" at this point but if you do, you can try to fix
> it.
>
> [1] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1290
> [2] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1362
> [3]
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2021#IntegratetestingframeworkwithGitHubActions
>
>
>> Also, should I start building my GSoC Proposal?
>>
>
> Yes, although that's really up to you. However, we want to see a draft of
> your proposal at the beginning of the submission window so that we can
> comment and you can incorporate the feedback before the submission period
> ends.
>
> My suggestion is to send another email to the mailing list, not focusing
> on GSoC, but really for general discussion, to see what people expect from
> this and how they think your idea would work. This can help you define for
> the proposal what you are aiming at in your project. Then, for the
> proposal, you should also try to match your design with your skill level.
>
>>

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