Summer of Code/Checklist

Participation Checklist

Before the summer begins, there are several things that students should do to become familiarized with BRL-CAD development. Below is a checklist of things each accepted student should complete before the official GSoC coding start date. Some items on the checklist should have already occurred during the application submission process.

• Read and agree to the acceptance requirements
• Read the development guidelines
• Read up on our expectations
• Join the #brlcad IRC channel and introduce yourself
• Join the brlcad-devel mailing list and introduce yourself
• Familiarize yourself with Subversion
• Compile and run BRL-CAD from source
• Familiarize yourself with BRL-CAD's on-line resources
  • http://brlcad.org
  • http://brlcad.org/wiki
  • http://brlcad.org/gallery
  • http://brlcad.org/d/documentation
  • http://sf.net/projects/brlcad
• Document your project on the Wiki as a design document
• Discuss your design document on IRC and/or the mailing list
• Create a list of 3 to 10 development milestones
• Publish your milestones to your user wiki page
• Set up an interaction schedule with your mentor
• Create a Sourceforge account
• Post patches until you get commit access