Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Eric Wasylishen]

Hi Fred, Ivan,

I'd be interested in mentoring a backend/Opal related project, or at least 
offering guidance if we have a mentor already.
I guess I have to register on the GSoC site?

Eric

On 2013-04-24, at 5:56 PM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:

> I thought again and I may be able to stand in as a backup mentor for your 
> project. Not the main mentor, joining in later this summer to help out. I 
> will try to register as a mentor, but you will still need an official mentor. 
> Apart for the usual candidates as Richard and Greg I would like to suggest 
> Eric and Niels. They both were excellent students at the GSoC themselves and 
> would be able to pass on that experience to other students. And they are 
> highly knowledgeable in the area.
> 
> Fred
> 
> On 24.04.2013 13:44, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>> First, thanks everyone for support and ideas!
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ivan
>>> 
>>> I had long ago decided that I wont mentor for GSoC this year, but your
>>> mail led me to rethink that position. Your proposal is very convincing and
>>> would be highly beneficial for GNUstep. ...
>>> 
>>> Sorry, but I wont be able to step in here. Hopefully somebody else in the
>>> GNUstep community will.
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>> Best wishes and hope to see you in Cambridge,
>> 
>> 
>> Ditto!
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 22 Apr 2013, at 21:43, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ping! Student registrations have started. Any prospective mentors?
>>> 
>>> I've registered as a mentor.  I'd also be most interested in the back end
>>> being refactored to support using Opal.
>>> 
>> 
>> Based on feedback everyone gave, yes, the importance of this (and the
>> importance of integration with Core Animation) seems to be the consensus.
>> 
>> Currently, basic idea that I have is to copy the entire Cairo backend (or
>> maybe use derived classes, although long-term that seems a bad idea) and
>> ensure that every Cairo surface is instead backed with an Opal context. I'd
>> temporarily expose the Cairo surface from the Opal context, and ensure that
>> calls are directed to the Cairo surface backing the Opal context instead of
>> to the Cairo surface inside the backend.
>> 
>> Then, I'd be removing the Cairo surface from the backend and replacing
>> Cairo calls with Opal calls.
>> 
>> Finally, I would be continuously looking at options for integrating Core
>> Animation with AppKit (based on feedback).
>> 
>> I'll probably need more supervision compared to implementation of UIKit,
>> but this is definitely a more useful long-term project for GNUstep.
>> 
>> I'll put together a proposal, register it on GSoC's Melange, and also send
>> it to the mailing list.
> 
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