Hello Greg, Anuj, and Priyesh!
Welcome to FreeType :-) We are glad that you are with us the next few months (and maybe even longer), and thank you in advance for the work on your projects. Our main communication is e-mail, which has served us well since the very beginning. Except for really private messages I ask you to always send e-mails to the '[email protected]' mailing list, so please subscribe in case you haven't done so. While you have personal mentors, it is rather that the collective wisdom of this list that will guide you through your work. In particular, you might get an answer earlier because we are distributed all over the world, living in different time zones. We don't have an IRC channel, sorry. Note also that most of us don't have English as our mother tongue, which also means that we are more comfortable with writing e-mails than talking directly. For the former, there is simply more time to formulate words correctly. Don't be shy! You should never hesitate to ask even simple things, if necessary. FreeType is a complex piece of software... Now some technical details. * Please get an account on Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/account/register.php and tell me your username so that I can give you write permission for the two FreeType git repositories. * I ask you to put your stuff into a private branch called 'xxx-projectname', with 'xxx' identifying yourself and 'projectname' your preferred project name). If necessary, create more branches to your liking with similar names. * After consolidation of your code (at the end of GSoC) a branch 'GSoC-2020-xxx' should hold the final state of the contribution to which you can refer in your final report. * If you think that your stuff doesn't belong to one of the two FreeType git repositories, feel free to create a repository elsewhere. * Please get used to the (admittedly strange) code formatting rules of FreeType, for which we unfortunately don't have an automatic formatter. Having a uniform appearance of code makes it much simpler to follow the logic. On the other hand, don't worry too much about formatting details; I'll fix minor issues by myself. Of course, this only holds for C (or C++) code that should eventually get merged. * I strongly advise you to learn how to write ChangeLog entries as used in FreeType. This is not necessary for your private stuff, but the final 'GSoC-2020-xxx' branch should follow it. To avoid merging issues, however, I ask you to actually *not* add stuff to the `ChangeLog` file itself. Instead, you should format commit messages as if they were ChangeLog entries. Doing so needs a good amount of self-discipline. Note that I often spend more time in writing a good ChangeLog entry than writing the code, and sometimes I even find problems with my code while doing so :-) As usual, it is more important to document *why* you do the change than describing the change itself – well-written code should tell you that automatically. I also ask you to add comments to the source code for non-trivial things. Werner PS: Anuj and Priyesh, please send your names written in your native scripts :-)
