Re: More Shapes for LibreOffice (Easyhack)

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" <katarina.behrens@cib.de> 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 ;-)
>
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