Summer of Code/Checklist
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GSoC Checklist
Before the summer coding begins, there are several things that students should do to become familiarized with BRL-CAD development. Below is a checklist of things each student should complete before the official GSoC coding start date. Some items on the checklist should occur during the application submission process while others need to occur before it's time to start coding.
In order to apply
- Review the Project Ideas
- Consider the Application Guidelines
- Understand the Acceptance Requirements
- Join the #brlcad IRC channel and introduce yourself
- Join the brlcad-devel mailing list and introduce yourself
- Prepare your application
- Discuss your application with the mentors
- (optional) Post your application to your wiki user page (/wiki/User:username)
- (optional) Share and discuss your application on the mailing list
- Submit a patch if you don't have commit access
- Submit your application
Prior to the starting date
- Agree to the acceptance requirements
- Read our participation expectations
- Read the development guidelines
- Familiarize yourself with Subversion
- Compile and run BRL-CAD from source
- Familiarize yourself with BRL-CAD's on-line resources
- Create a Sourceforge and brlcad.org wiki account
- Publish a development plan to the wiki
- Document a list of 3 to 10 development milestones
- Document your plan on the Wiki as a design document
- Discuss your plan via irc and/or on the mailing list
- Set up an interaction schedule with your mentor
Once coding begins
- Post patches until you get commit access
- Write maintainable, portable, complete code
- Keep a daily log of your activities online somewhere (wiki user page is great for this)
- Report your progress periodically to the mailing list
After GSoC ends
- Provide a final report on your project progress to the mailing list
- Continue working on BRL-CAD :-)
