Re: GDB/GCC/Hurd GSoC 2013 projects

[Fotis Koutoulakis]

Hello everyone.

I would like to express my dearest apologies for the issue that arose
with my lack of communication.
As requested, I also wrote my first report on what I have been up to,
up until this point. It was nothing exciting, mostly reading
documentation about the two projects (and some books here and there)
but I expect myself to get "dirty" with the source code later in the
week.

You can find my report here
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/user/NlightNFotis/

I also would like to let you know that I am open to any criticism
suggestions. If you have anything to note about my behavior,
performance, methodologies, or just about anything for that matter,
just drop me an email or ping me in the #Hurd channel.

Thank you all for your time,
and again I am really *really* sorry for disappointing you so early in
the summer.

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Fotis Koutoulakis
<fotis.koutoulakis@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Fotis Koutoulakis <fotis.koutoulakis@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: GDB/GCC/Hurd GSoC 2013 projects
> To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
>
>
> Please excuse me for failing to appear at the weekly IRC Meeting. I
> promise that this won't happen again.
>
> I would like you to know that I am working full time, and I am
> currently engaged studying documentation for both the GCC and the
> Hurd. I am done mostly with the Hurd documentation, and I am currently
> studying some documents for the GCC. I believe that in the week, I
> will be able to start writing code. I have not met any severe
> obstacles so far.
>
> I will write a report on the Hurd website today.
>
> Please accept my apologies, and be ensured that I will do my best to
> ensure that I am online and available on the IRC for any thing you
> might want to contact me about.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Thomas Schwinge
> <thomas@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> Hi Fotis!
>>
>> Neither have you shown up at the scheduled weekly IRC meeting, nor have
>> you given any notice that you wouldn't be able to make it this week.
>> Also, I have not seen any kind of status report from you in a very long
>> time.
>>
>> I know you have been busy with university work before, which is fine, but
>> in the application process you stated that »after the 20th of June, I
>> will be able to work full time«.  I'm not aware/have not been made aware
>> of any other obstacles that would take your time now.
>>
>> Please explain, and send a status report immediately.
>>
>> I have always encouraged you to report early if there are any issues you
>> need help with, which I have not seen you do.
>>
>> Be aware, as I reported in the weekly IRC meeting, that I'll be away
>> starting tomorrow morning through Monday, inclusive.  Samuel will lead
>> the next IRC meeting on Monday.
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the rather harsh words, but Google, as your current employer,
>> has assigned to me, in my position of dubbed GSoC mentor, the
>> responsibility for making sure you're complying to the program guidelines
>> -- which I currently can't be sure of.  It is now the time to fix this.
>>
>>
>> Below, I'm repeating the rules that I thought we agreed on.  If anything
>> of that is inconvenient for you, including the timing of the weekly IRC
>> meeting, we can certainly address your wishes -- once we know them.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:52:20 +0200, I wrote:
>>> I propose the following scheme: effective now, GSoC students send a
>>> weekly report at the end of each week (so, on Friday, or on the weekend
>>> -- as an exception at the very latest one hour before the following
>>> regular IRC meeting), and regular IRC meetings are held each Monday,
>>> during the GSoC students' day-time, that is, between 7 UTC and 12 UTC
>>> (translating to 9 UTC+2 and 14 UTC+2, and 15 UTC+8 and 20 UTC+8).
>>> Unfortunately, this probably will be inconvenient for Ian and Luis, so I
>>> do not expect you to attend regularely, but rather be consulted on
>>> demand.  More specifically, would Monday, 8 UTC (10 UTC+2, 16 UTC+8) work
>>> for everyone, typically?  ("Everyone" here means the GSoC students, GSoC
>>> mentors, and everyone else who is interested.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Of course, despite the regular meeting, you're still very much encouraged
>>> to discuss issues early, as they come up, instead of waiting for the next
>>> meeting.
>>>
>>>
>>> Weekly reports, as discussed before:
>>>
>>> | Weekly reports.  Additional to the IRC meetings and any other emails you
>>> | send, we'd like some sort of weekly report, covering what you have done
>>> | in the last week, what worked fine, what didn't, and so on.  How/where
>>> | you do the reporting, we don't really care, as long as it's publically
>>> | accessible.  You can send a weekly status email, or post an article on
>>> | your personal blog, of host a page/blog on the GNU Hurd wiki (which
>>> | several GSoC students have done in the past; see some of the subpages on
>>> | <http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/user/>).
>>> |
>>> | It is best of course, if there is some correlation between the timeline
>>> | you proposed in your GSoC project applications and the progress you're
>>> | actually making, but it is to be expected that you have to adjust the
>>> | former.  (And don't worry if ther are weeks where you don't seem to get a
>>> | lot done -- things take time.)  Please do make some effort to predict how
>>> | log certain tasks will take (and then how long they actually took...):
>>> | this is a good exercise for the difficult topic of software development
>>> | time scheduling (speaking from my own experience...) ;-) and that surely
>>> | will be helpful later in your jobs, too.
>>
>>
>> Grüße,
>>  Thomas
>
>
>
> --
> Fotis 'NlightNFotis' Koutoulakis
>
> - "Non semper aestas erit; venit hiems."
>
>
> --
> Fotis 'NlightNFotis' Koutoulakis
>
> - "Non semper aestas erit; venit hiems."



-- 
Fotis 'NlightNFotis' Koutoulakis

- "Non semper aestas erit; venit hiems."