[Scummvm-devel] GSoC - Call for mentors

[Thierry Crozat]

Hi Arnaud,

With motivation slowly coming back I might accept to mentor a backend or GUI related task. I am a bit on the fence regarding the TTS task. I can mentor it, and it has attracted some interest every year since we have listed the task, but we have not had a single good enough proposal (it seems to attract developers with limited skills). Maybe a miracle will happen though. I would prefer not to mentor an engine related task this year, but being one of the few developers familiar with the supernova engine I might accept to co-mentor one on that engine if there is a good candidates and if I am not interested in any go the GUI or backend proposals we receive.

And I am happy for you and dreammaster to decide whether to add the immortal task or not. I don't want to mentor it, but if you have other mentors for it I don't see why it could not be added.


Thierry

> On 24 Jan 2019, at 09:43, Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear teams,
> 
> Here is an update after 2 days.
> 
> I received the confirmation of the following mentors:
> - aquadran (ResidualVM)
> - botje (ResidualVM)
> - djwillis (ScummVM)
> - dreammaster (ScummVM)
> - sev (ScummVM)
> - and myself (ScummVM)
> 
> Concerning the ideas, I got a confirmation of aquadran that the ICB and Wintermute3D tasks are still available with mentors.
> On my side, I confirm the availability of the Supernova task. All the other tasks are still to be confirmed. Out of those, two tasks particularly need a confirmation:
> - "Improve Android Port", proposed at the time by fuzzie, needs mentor volunteers. 
> - "Text To Speech", proposed at the time by criezy and I, needs also a mentor or at the very least a serious discussion.
> If there's no volunteer nor discussion about those two ideas, I'll remove them from the idea page. the deadline is Sunday 3 feb pm, so that people may eventually talk about it at fosdem
> 
> Speaking about ideas, I also have two points to add:
> - *FOR RESIDUALVM PEOPLE*: Did you consider the Penumbra engine? The licensing may be a point to clarify though. https://github.com/FrictionalGames/PenumbraOverture <https://github.com/FrictionalGames/PenumbraOverture>
> - *FOR SCUMMVM PEOPLE*: Without feedback about the The Immortal engine, I'll make a point with dreammaster about adding it or not and we'll decide if we want to co-mentor it or not. I'd prefer to have feedback before though.
> 
> I currently have no additional game idea to propose, but I'm trying to find some (for both projects). Any idea would be gratefully welcome of course.
> 
> Also, don't hesitate to tell it if you have time to co-mentor a task: the more, the merrier!
> 
> Best regards,
> Arnaud
> 
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:02 AM Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org <mailto:strangerke at scummvm.org>> wrote:
> Dear ScummVM and ResidualVM teams
> 
> The deadline for the application form is getting closer, and we currently dont have enough mentors (and ideas). I'm therefore sending this new email. The previous one was sent during the end of year celebration and it's likely some of you didn't even notice it.
> 
> Currently, the Following people answered:
> For ScummVM: dreammaster, sev, Strangerke
> For ResidualVM: Dries
> 
> Mataniko raised an interesting point in the last thread. What is a mentor, what is expected from them? Google made some nice documentation about their summer of code, so I prefer to link to it directly : https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/what-makes-a-good-mentor <https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/what-makes-a-good-mentor>
> 
> I started duplicating and updating the pages the same way I did the past years.
> There's still a lot of work to be done in order to make the application awesome, but that's pretty usual so there's no worries about it.
> 
> The current draft versions of the application form and the idea page are available there:
> https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code/Application/2019 <https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code/Application/2019>
> https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code/GSoC_Ideas_2019 <https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code/GSoC_Ideas_2019>
> 
> I removed the Spark idea as it was handled last year. If ResidualVM people think it should be back, don't hesitate to tell, with a description of what still has to be done and the task expectations.
> 
> I also seriously consider to remove the Text To Speech task in ScummVM. If you Don't feel the same and are ready to mentor it, please tell it too. I also consider adding the Immortal task. It wasn't successful last year but it's now publicly known that we have the sources available. Any comment about it is welcome too.
> 
> For ResidualVM people: Could you please review the Wintermute 3D and the ICB tasks and tell if they are still available. It would be convenient that the people involved (E.J., Pawel, Joost) tell if they are available and eventually work on the text to make it more appealing (maybe some screenshots would help too?)
> 
> For ScummVM people: Most of the tasks are currently proposed by Eugene and he's currently quite busy with RL. It would be nice if some people could either take the co-responsability of a task so it may happen. In any cases, new ideas are very welcome as the ones currently proposed are sometimes old and may not be sexy for students. If you have ideas not related to a game engine and are willing to discuss about it, please start a new thread on -devel as it will be more convenient to keep track of the discussions this way.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help and feedback,
> Best regards,
> Arnaud / Strangerke
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