MoinMoin: MoinMoinChat/Logs/moin-dev/2007-03-24

2007-03-24T13:32:20  <Patrick`> I suppose I should ask, now that I'm not tied up academically, what could be done for moinmoin for GSOC that doesn't require a lot of experience?
2007-03-24T13:33:30  <ThomasWaldmann> Patrick`: did you read the GoogleSoc2007 page?
2007-03-24T13:34:18  <Patrick`> I'm there now
2007-03-24T13:34:37  <Patrick`> but I can't really judge what I could pick up in a weekend enough to write a useful application
2007-03-24T13:36:51  <ThomasWaldmann> how much python experience do you have?
2007-03-24T13:37:46  <Patrick`> competent, I'd say. But it's been network daemons
2007-03-24T13:39:07  <ThomasWaldmann> did you work with moin already?
2007-03-24T13:39:21  <Patrick`> fraid not
2007-03-24T13:39:45  <ThomasWaldmann> looked at the src?
2007-03-24T13:40:01  <Patrick`> doing it now
2007-03-24T13:40:11  <Patrick`> but practically no
2007-03-24T13:41:22  <ThomasWaldmann> javascript experience?
2007-03-24T13:42:02  <Patrick`> no.
2007-03-24T13:43:34  <ThomasWaldmann> did you do web development yet? forms, cgi, webserver config etc.?
2007-03-24T13:45:19  <Patrick`> at this point, I'm only making a fool of myself. It's still no
2007-03-24T13:47:15  <ThomasWaldmann> did you do code refactoring and cleanups?
2007-03-24T13:47:26  <Patrick`> constantly
2007-03-24T13:47:34  <Patrick`> my main project is the same one I learned with
2007-03-24T13:47:41  <Patrick`> every 2 months I fix all my old retarded decisions
2007-03-24T13:47:49  <ThomasWaldmann> hehe
2007-03-24T13:47:59  <Patrick`> or even just lack of knowledge of stdlib
2007-03-24T13:48:09  <Patrick`> "oh, I know, python won't have a logger class, let's write one"
2007-03-24T13:48:17  <Patrick`> (sorry, slight tangent)
2007-03-24T13:49:04  <ThomasWaldmann> well, the storage api task is mainly a cleanup, refactor, rewrite task
2007-03-24T13:49:48  <ThomasWaldmann> but it is a big task for someone experienced in python
2007-03-24T13:50:54  <Patrick`> yes, I've read about it
2007-03-24T13:50:59  <Patrick`> not for the faint-hearted
2007-03-24T13:51:01  <Patrick`> :/
2007-03-24T13:51:47  <Patrick`> was worth a shot, anyway
2007-03-24T13:52:09  <ThomasWaldmann> i think it can be done in 2..3 months full-time
2007-03-24T13:53:09  <Patrick`> I couldn't put together a proposal in 2 days
2007-03-24T13:54:17  <ThomasWaldmann> look at Page/user/logfile in the src
2007-03-24T13:56:53  <ThomasWaldmann> btw, do you have your sourcecode somewhere in the web? include that in your app (and use our app template)
2007-03-24T13:57:34  <ThomasWaldmann> extended sistersites is something rather new and separate
2007-03-24T13:57:46  <Patrick`> yeah, but I'm not proud of it, I've not been developing on it since september due to university work
2007-03-24T13:57:58  <Patrick`> granted it's better than it was at revision 1
2007-03-24T13:58:21  <ThomasWaldmann> well, you have to show something in any case :)
2007-03-24T13:59:09  <ThomasWaldmann> (you dont need to publish here on the channel, though)
2007-03-24T14:00:05  <ThomasWaldmann> did you take part in some free software project?
2007-03-24T14:01:54  <Patrick`> not in a code-contributing capacity, no.
2007-03-24T14:02:02  <Patrick`> long time affiliate of openttd if it helps :)
2007-03-24T14:02:28  <Patrick`> see, if it was up to me I wouldn't do GSOC this summer but next summer I'm working on placement, summer after that I've graduated
2007-03-24T14:05:33  <ThomasWaldmann> well, you can also work on moin code not taking part in gsoc :)
2007-03-24T14:05:48  <Patrick`> yeah, I'll be doing OSS anyway
2007-03-24T14:06:10  <ThomasWaldmann> you graduate in what?
2007-03-24T14:06:37  <Patrick`> ... MASTER OF CHEMISTRY!
2007-03-24T14:06:39  <Patrick`> (really)
2007-03-24T14:07:14  <ThomasWaldmann> chemistry was one of my former hobbies :)
2007-03-24T14:07:51  <Patrick`> it was a tossup between chemistry and CS
2007-03-24T14:08:04  <Patrick`> I figured in today's political climate, hobbyist chemist was pretty dangerous
2007-03-24T14:08:10  <Patrick`> especially for someone with an irish name
2007-03-24T14:08:20  <ThomasWaldmann> true :)
2007-03-24T14:08:51  <ThomasWaldmann> esp. if it involves explosive stuff :)
2007-03-24T22:28:53  <xorAxAx> a new application
2007-03-24T23:10:18  <ThomasWaldmann> ah, that one looks promising