Re: Interested in contributing to LibreOffice GSOC 2016

Chris@ even though a bit late, could you please formulate your idea with a title etc, and put it on 
the GSoC ideas page so we do not have multiple places to track the ideas.

thanks in advance
rgds
jan i.


> On 09 Mar 2016, at 23:53, Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On 10 Mar 2016, at 6:07 AM, yeliz taneroğlu <yeliztaneroglu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I hope you are well. My name is Yeliz and I am a 3rd year student in a Computer Engineering 
> > program. I'm interested in "Refactor god objects" project for GSOC 2016. I read this 
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Refactor_god_objects .
> >
> > My accepted patches for LibreOffice until now.
> >
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/19792/ 
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/19671/ 
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21614/ 
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21858/ 
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21888/
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21936/ 
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/22020/ 
> > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/22940/ 
> >
> > I want to work in this project. Thank you so much for your time and I look forward to hearing 
> > from you. 
> >
> > Kind Regards,
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> Welcome aboard Yeliz :-)
>
> As it turns out, I’ve got an idea I’ve been toying with for ages, so I might as well put it out 
> there. 
>
> One of the issues with the VCL module as it currently stands is that the OutputDevice class is 
> pretty massive. I would be good to be able to make a compilation firewall for this class, and at 
> the same time split up the functionality into seperate classes. 
>
> Some time ago I rearranged the OutputDevice source files into a more logical structure - they can 
> be found here:
>
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/vcl/source/outdev/
>
> My idea was that all these cxx files now logically group related functionality and could be 
> converted into “Helper” classes, and we reference these as private member variables using a pImpl 
> pattern. Public functions (that are indeed truly public) are then forwarded to the Helper 
> classes. 
>
> The advantages are mainly in compilation time and code flexibility, but also any of the other 
> advantages to setting up a compilation firewall would apply also. 
>
> If you’ve never heard of a Compilation Firewall, the description of my idea above is essentially 
> what it achieves. However, I *really* recommend reading Herb Suttor’s article on the technique 
> here:
>
> http://herbsutter.com/gotw/_100/ 
>
> Perhaps I should log an easy hack. 
>
> Anyway, that would be something I think could be done - it’s a reasonable difficultly level, but 
> not too difficult for someone who knows C++. I would really love to see unit tests of the helper 
> classes, which would really help make the code robust. 
>
> If someone else wants to chime in here, please feel free :-) However, I’m happy to chat on IRC - 
> come to #libreoffice-dev on freenode; my nick is chris_wot
>
> Chris 
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