Re: GSoC 2011 - Draft Proposal

Hi Manu,

Regarding table styles have you looked at the Styles code in AbiWord?

The core of it is in:

src/text/ptbl/pt_PT_Styles.(h,cpp) but there are assumptions about
styles throughout src/text/fmt/xp/*.(h,cpp).

We actually only two types of styles character and paragraph.
Extending those to include a new type of style will involve all sorts
of changes through the code. This is quite a big project because we
have a lot of hardwired assumptions that just these types of styles
exist. Fixing this would certainly be a good thing but it would the
first thing that needs doing before you could look at implementing a
new type of style.

Rather than simply saying "I'm confident this will be finished on
time" you should give examples of verifiable code you have developed.
In particular if you can show examples of how you personally solved
problems with little outside assistance, particularly if you did this
just because you were interested and it was a fun thing to do, that
would carry a lot of weight with us.

That sort thing demonstrates to us that you have the potential to
stick with the AbiWord project after Google stops paying you and
become a long term contributor to the project.

Finally regarding your internship. How long does it go for and what
hours are you expected to work for it? We expect our GSoC students to
work roughly 40 hours per week on their project.

Best Regards,

Martin

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM, manu [ranga] <rcmperera@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Draft Proposal - GSoC 2011 - AbiWord
>
> Name:
>    R.C.Manuranga Perera
>
> Email:
>    rcmperera@gmail.com
>
> Project Title:
>    Table improvements
>
> Synopsis:
>    this is based on Martin Sevior's idea displayed on idea page[1].
>    but rather than implementing it as "header repeat" functionality,
>    this project proposes it to be implemented as table styling template.
>    this proposed "table template" will include color, font, align,
>    ect. for both body and header. users will be able to easily apply a
>    template to a selected table.also they can make and save new template
>    styles of their own.
>
> Benefits to the AbiWord:
>   not only this will solve the "big tables header repeat" problem,
>   but also add a feature that will enable making nice looking tables quickly.
>
> Deliverables:
>   will add new tab to "Format Table" dialog box,  which will allow
>   users to select template for tables and customize templates
>
> Project Details:
>  introducing "table header repeat" as well as other table style as a
>  "table template" will have many benefits.
>  this will make the backend keep separate data models for table data
>  and meta/style data, which is a good design.
>  style data will be able be switched without change raw table date.
>  this will avoid any data repetition in the actual table data, since
>  even many rows of the same data is visible, actual data model is
>  untouched.
>
>  default templates can be provided for many common patterns eg:-
>  alternating dark blue and light blue rows with bold headers repeated
>  for each page
>
> Project Schedule:
>   I am confident that I can manage to stick to google's scheduled
>   time-line[2] or better even though I am currently interning at
>   WSO2[3].
>
> Bio:
>  I am Manu (R.C.M. Perera) from Sri Lanka.I am an undergraduate
>  studying at of University of Moratuwa.
>  have a good experience both in C++ and C.
>
> [1] http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011#Table_improvements
> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2011
> [3] http://wso2.com/
>
> ========================================================================
> please let me know any feedback/suggestions/comments on this proposel
> --
> by,
>            Manu
> (R Chathura Manuranga Perera)
>
Received on Tue Apr 5 11:47:04 2011