Summer of code evaluations

[Adam Petaccia]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 01:14 +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As you may know yesterday was the pens down for summer of code 2008 
> Students are still allowed to write code, but it won't count for the 
> mentors evaluation any more.
I intend to clean up and make sure almost everything I've written can
get merged, it just may be a little slower now that school is starting.

> 
> I would like to request from the mentors to fill in the final evaluation 
> form and from the students to give a final write up: What went well? Did 
> you meet the goals you set? Did you have fun? Is there anything we can 
> do to make wines summer of code better and do you feel like you've 
> become part of the wine community?
I greatly enjoyed summer of code, and I would like to think that I
emerged a much better programmer than when I started, and yes, it was a
lot of fun. A lot of bugs I saw for Gdiplus were installer bugs, so
hopefully many more applications are installable under Wine -- but when
people discover that there may be even more bugs opened :-)

While it can be annoying to have a patchset rejected five times, it's
satisfying to fix myself it rather than see "based on a patch from...";
also I love the quality standards and peer-review that Wine has, as that
made the code a lot easier to work with, because just about everything
was in good shape when I got it, and I hope that the next person who
looks at Gdiplus will think so too.

I will try to stay a part of the Wine community, but now that Summer of
Code is done I have a lot fewer itches to scratch (Quicktime is my new
target, but I have no idea how long that will take with school).

All in all, its been a blast. I would like to thank my mentor, Lei for
helping me when I was completely stuck, Alexandre for dealing with me
over IRC when I ask "why?", and everyone else who's posted comments
saying "You can't do it like that".
> 
> I also believe that students will have to fill in a final evaluation 
> form as well, so get writing. ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Maarten.
> 
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