Thanks a lot respected Katrina Behrens. I was really disappointed by the people who said 'You should be a qualified developer'. I was very motivated to work with GSoC and tried my best to understand code. I just wanted someone to tell where to begin with. Few people have tried there best to demotivate me.
Thanks again for encouraging me. Regards. On 27-Mar-2018 6:42 PM, "Katarina Behrens" <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a GSoC > > student you are expected to be a smart developer, able to dig into the > > code, and to find code pointers yourself. That might be time-consuming > and > > one question makes sense, perhaps someone knows the answer off the top of > > the head. But that happens not too often. > > Stating perhaps the obvious, the word "student" is derived from the verb > "to > study" ( = "to learn") i.e. it is someone who is learning things, not > someone > who is expected to know them already. Fortunately, most of GSoC mentors are > aware of that. > > Moreover, "smart developer" is usually someone with multiple years of > coding > experience (and sometimes even that ain't enough *smirk*). In my particular > case, this is some 12+ years of experience and I still need to ask other > people for code pointers sometimes. Nobody expects me to always find them > myself, quite the contrary. > > Asking for help (in contrast to banging my head against the wall ad nauseam > 'cause I don't understand the code) is somehow smarter use of resources I > have. Again, most of GSoC mentors know this and encourage students to reach > out when they're stuck. > > > Last but not least I'm neither a > > developer nor your mentor. And while I really appreciate any work on bug > > 87892, solving a design only easyhack is not a proof of your coding > skills > > to me. > > IIRC, adding new shapes AND new categories to gallery in tdf#87892 requires > some non-trivial knowledge of build system and it is neither "design-only" > nor > "easy hack" ... oh wait, you already mentioned you were not a developer ;-) > > -- > Katarina Behrens > > Senior Software-Entwicklerin FLOSS > ––– > CIB software GmbH > Geschäftsstelle Hamburg > Flachsland 10 > 22083 Hamburg > ––– > T +49 (40) / 28 48 42 -235 > F +49 (40) / 28 48 42 -100 > > [email protected] > www.cib.de > ––– > Sitz: München > Registergericht München, HRB 123286 > Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Brandner > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >
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