BRL-CAD is huge. Thousands of files spread across 165 directories. Maintaining a high quality of source code and documentation is a never ending task, but one anyone can help with.
Sound's easy, but you might be surprised because you need to ignore all of the source code and function variables that will easily trip up any automatic spell-check program. You basically only care about spelling mistakes within comments. Even for our documentation, much of it is formatted in xml and you have to ignore all of the xml tags.
This task involves finding and fixing simple spelling mistakes. To complete the task, you need to find 8 or more different spelling mistakes in at least 8 different files. You have to fix all occurrences of the spelling mistake across all those files. Make sense?
Remember to check and fix all occurrences of the mistakes in all 8+ files, make and submit it as a patch file.
BE SURE TO HAVE UP-TO-DATE SOURCES!!! We find and fix spelling mistakes on a daily basis and throughout the day. You have to find mistakes that are not already fixed or reported.
To clarify:
- 1 mistake in 7 different files counts as: 1 and 7
- 20 mistakes in 2 files counts as: 8 and 2
- 5 mistakes across 20 files counts as: 5 and 8
- You need to find: =8 mistakes AND =8 files
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCIspelling2.patch | 20.5 KB | November 19 2013 06:33 UTC |
I would like to work on this task.
This task has been assigned to YuGin. You have 72 hours to complete this task, good luck!
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Congratulations, this task has been completed successfully.
Yu, very nicely completed. Note that there are other tasks like this one if you'd like to keep going (and we'll be adding more as they are completed), or you can try something else.
We'll be crediting you in our official authorship documentation for your code contribytion. Please provide your full name and consider joining our brlcad-news mailing list to see your name in a future announcement.
Your patch has been committed to our latest trunk sources in r58631. Your name is credited with special thanks in our AUTHORS file, which is included in every distribution of BRL-CAD.
How long did it take you to find those spelling mistakes?
Once I got everything set up and installed, the actual searching took probably 1-1.5 hours. I seearched for '/*' in the source code files which helped me to navigate to the comments quickly.
YuGin, want to let you know that you are just one task shy of getting a t-shirt from Google for having completed three tasks. (If you completed other tasks with other orgs, you may already qualify too). Thank you for your efforts!
Hi Sean, I am currently completing tasks for other organisations. Thanks for the reminder!