[Scummvm-devel] GSoC in 2018?

[Colin Snover]

I can mostly only expand upon what I said in my previous email: I feel
it is not a good target because there are already other folks working on
the engine, and there are many other really helpful open tasks which
have no contributors at all which could be done instead. Working on AGS
would present additional logistical challenges in an already complicated
and time-sensitive process, by requiring that the work be coordinated
with an extra third party. Given the challenges already discussed in
this thread regarding lack of time and amount of effort needed just to
fulfil the basic requirements of the GSoC programme, it seems
unnecessary to introduce these additional levels of uncertainty and work
into the process. It would also seem to me that the other people working
on AGS should be talked to to even see how they would feel about
potentially working with a GSoC student, as they may not want to do
this. Is this clear and makes sense? If it still seems like a good
target, could you share your plans on how these extra challenges would
be managed?

There are several other in-progress engines, many of which you have
already worked on or even presented as GSoC ideas in the past (several
of which are actually on the GSoC Ideas 2018 page now, which is great),
which would be lower-risk targets and which would not result in the
extra energy needed to coordinate efforts with a third party. There are,
of course, the various TODOs on http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/TODO,
as well as past ideas in the GSoC Ideas history,
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas&oldid=21589, etc. to
pick from. I think there are so many great ideas here already that I
don’t feel like I need to add any new ones to the mix.

On 2018-01-17 01:27, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
> On 17 January 2018 at 02:36, Colin Snover <scummvm-devel at zetafleet.com
> <mailto:scummvm-devel at zetafleet.com>> wrote:
>
>     As Strangerke mentioned, there is currently at least one person
>     already working on the AGS engine in ScummVM, so it doesn’t seem
>     like a good target for a GSoC
>
> Many engines are developed by more than one person. Why it is a bad
> target for GSoC?
>  
>
>     , and there are surely a lot of other things to do which nobody is
>     working on.
>
> I welcome you to describe these ideas on the following page and
> preferably offer yourself as a potential mentor for them.
>
>    http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/GSoC_Ideas_2018
>
>
> Eugene
>
>
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