User:KeshaSShah/GSoC13/Reports

Week 0

April 19 to April 22

• Joined #brlcad channel on IRC
• Subscribed to mailing list
• Introduced myself to the community through mailing list
• Downloaded Source Code
• Compiled it successfully from the source using cmake
• Made an account on SVN.
• Had a glance at source folder and caught my eyes on an instance of duplication.
• Made first patch and submitted it.
• Looked through project ideas and found Code Refacoring most interesting and suitable for me.

April 23 to April 30

• University Final Exams

May 1

• Checked out some TODO task in the domain of Code Reducing and Refactoring.
• Picked up moving LIBWBD comments.
• Used the grep command to find out the comments that needed to be moved.
• Within just 10 minutes, I was able to successfully move all comments and submitted another patch
• Discussed with Sean about my interest when he encouraged me to explore converting and processing geometry.

May 2

• Read tutorial I and then tutorial IV on Converting Geometry and recieved some basic idea on STEP and other convertors available for importing and exporting between different CAD softwares.
• Gone through project ideas again and liked two more ideas-namely Improving STEP Library and STEP AP242 Parser.

May 3

• Proposal Submission Deadline on melange.
• Made my User-Wiki-pages
• Uploaded proposal on Melange and embedded wiki links in it.

May 4-5

• Read about the STEPcode from its wiki
• Files and Directories in sc/source
• Build the STEPcode with testing enabled using cmake
• Looked at files created in build directory

May 6-8

• Picked up Issue #47 to work upon.
• Made a list of differences between pair of 13 similar files.
• Untangles some calls from src/fedex_plus to src/clstepcore.
• Discussed on IRC about the errors I encounter.
• Read about how calls are made, maintainence of call-stack heap, the process of linking and Compiler warnings
• Overall, have got some better understanding.

May 9

• Installed doxygen and looked up some example codes.(for documentation part)
• Made a test-bot for IRC #stepcode (it functionalities still remaining to be discussed with mentors.)