[SoC] GSoC Introduction
Luca Delucchi
lucadeluge at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 23:33:15 PDT 2018
On 25 April 2018 at 05:40, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sanjeet,
>
Hi Sanjeet, Anna
>
> welcome! For start, please create a wiki page on trac wiki (you should
> already have access there), look at the examples from the past years,
> and follow similar structure:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC
>
yes please create the page looking at previous year projects.
> We will need to decide how to manage your contributions, since you
> won't have access rights to the svn repository. We might need to do it
> similarly as we did with one student 2 years ago, he tracked the
> applied changesets in his github repository, which could be then
> submitted to Google in the end of the program. You could post your
> changes in tickets (created specifically for this GSoC) and they will
> be applied by me, Luca or other developers. I understand this is not
> ideal workflow, so if anybody has better idea, let me know.
>
I fully agree, I think small patches (for example a patch for each
file you modify) is better then bigger, so we can look it
> For the community bonding period there are couple things I suggest.
> * make sure you have all the development environment ready (you
> probably have that already)
> * have good idea about the code structure
> * make yourself familiar with the testing framework, I would like you
> to use it to update current tests of the libraries, adjust them to
> work with Python3 and write new tests:
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/manuals/libpython/gunittest_testing.html
> http://fatra.cnr.ncsu.edu/grassgistests/summary_report/
> * specifically start looking at Python scripting library, it would be
> great if you could start working on it during the bonding period,
> specific challenges you may encounter there may help us get the
> discussion going.
>
yes, to start you can just launch GRASS and from the command line in
GRASS launch a Python3 console, it work.
Please use standard North Carolina dataset [0], the tests actually use
the "basic" version of the dataset
> I will let you know if I think of more things. Please send your
> questions/concerns either directly to me and Luca, or copy also the
> grass-dev mailing list, so that we can keep other developers in the
> loop.
>
> Thank you and looking forward to working with you,
>
> Anna
>
[0] http://grass.osgeo.org/download/sample-data/
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ciao
Luca
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