Re: Qucs and GSoC

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:27 AM, John Wamba <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello all, my name is John Wamba and I am a Computer Engineering student at
>> Cal Poly Pomona.  I am interested in participation in the Google summer of
>> code with Octave.  I am particularly interested in the Qucs circuit
>> simulator package.  I have a few questions about the application process,
>> first I would like to know how I would demonstrate that I have successfully
>> compiled octave on my computer?  I am running openSUSE 13.1 and have Octave
>> installed from my distro's repository (version 3.6.4) and compiled the
>> version from the mercurial repository (version 4.1.0) to a specific
>> directory.  Can I just take a screen shot of the two separate versions
>> running side by side and submit that with my application?  Also, I would
>> like to have some feedback on my public application at
>> http://wiki.octave.org/User:Jwamba to help me submit a successful
>> application.  Any help or feedback will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you
>> ~John Wamba
>
> Hi John,
>
> We take your word that you have compiled Octave, we are all adult people here.
> What would e awesome is that you try to work on some short project,
> submit patches and that we can look at your code.
> http://wiki.octave.org/Short_projects
> http://wiki.octave.org/Projects
> http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas

Oh, John and join the IRC channel before working on patches, cause
some of those have been already worked out (also check the tracker)
https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=octave