Re: [soc-dev] Eclipse Platform: Implementing generic in JFace viewers

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hendrik,

Yes the mentor assignments will get
sorted out later. In practice the official mentor is not an important detail:
you would ideally end up interacting with many of the Eclipse platform
committers such as Lars and myself as part of the project. Your next step
will be to submit an application, which starts on April 22nd:

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Of  course in the meantime you
are encouraged to checkout the code and get familiar with the process of
working with it. It will strengthen your application if you already have
some initial experience contributing to the code base, even at the level
of trivial patches.

John



From:      
 Hendrik Still <hendrik.still@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 Summer of Code dev
list <soc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
Date:      
 04/04/2013 01:02 PM
Subject:    
   Re: [soc-dev]
Eclipse Platform: Implementing generic in JFace        viewers
Sent by:    
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Hey John, Hey Lars,

thanks for your reply. I'm happy that you two to act as mentors on this
topic. Currently I don't know who assigns a mentor to a student. But I
think we have to wait until the Google administrators will announce 
their decisions about the applications.

Best regards,
Hendrik

Am 02.04.13 15:47, schrieb Lars Vogel:
> Hi John and Hendrik,
>
> I would also like to help in this effort, if possible.
>
> Best regards, Lars
>
> 2013/4/2 John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hi Hendrik, this sounds great. There may be other candidates but
I would
>> be happy to act as a mentor on this. I can dig up some old presentation
>> material on moving APIs to Java 5 to help get you started.
>>
>> You can certainly run your own build, but the easiest way to develop
is
>> just build JFace in your Eclipse workspace and run the automated
tests as
>> you develop. Here are some pointers to help get started:
>>
>> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From:        Hendrik Still <hendrik.still@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To:        soc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>> Date:        04/02/2013 08:13 AM
>> Subject:        [soc-dev] Eclipse Platform:
Implementing generic in JFace
>> viewers
>> Sent by:        soc-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey,
>> my name is Hendrik Still and I'm interested to work on the topic
>> "Eclipse Platform: Implementing generic in JFace viewers"
as part of the
>> GSoC.
>> At the moment I'm studying Computer Science in my third year in
>> Karlsruhe (Germany). Before I've started studying, I gained a
degree as
>> IT specialist for application development. As part of my work
as a
>> software developer and student I'm using Eclipse JDT, PDT, CDT..
 daily.
>> To be honest until now I've not committed to one of this projects
or the
>> eclipse platform yet, but I'm really looking forward to do so.
>>
>> By now I've already cloned the source of eclipse.platform.ui,
skimmed
>> through
>> the code and tried to build the platform from the
>> eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator.git repository. Currently my
build
>> isn't running but hopefully I'll get this to work by this or next
week.
>>
>> As far as I understand the main issue is that without specifying
the type
>> for e.g. the used model while compiletime leads to heavily using
of
>> casting. That's why, according to me, the goal is to avoid castings
like
>> in this example from www.vogella.com
with the use of Java Generics
>>
>> public class TodoLabelProvider extends LabelProvider {
>>    //...
>>    @Override
>>    public String getText(Object element) {
>>      if (element instanceof Category) {
>>        Category category = (Category) element;
>>        return category.getName();
>>      }
>>      return ((Todo) element).getSummary();
>>    }
>> //...
>>
>> I really want to take the Google Summer of Code as a chance to
learn
>> more about the Eclipse Platform and about Eclipse opensource community,
>> as well . Extending my proficiency, it would be a great chance
to share
>> my time and knowledge and become part of the project.
>>
>>
>> Kindest Regards
>> Hendrik Still
>>
>>
>>
>>
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