Hello,
My name
is Jurjiu Catalin George and I am a aspiring student in the
Google Summer of Code 2013 program. I am currently studying
second year Computer Science at The Technical University of
Cluj-Napoca, in Romania.
I have
browsed the list of proposed projects, and I became
particularly interested in the following two:
Folding for Java Code block &
Create filterable Console View. I code
both in Eclipse & IDEA, so I know how this two features
should be implemented in Eclipse, as I have used them in IDEA.
I would like to make my contribution by implementing one of
these two features as I do believe they can be real
life-savers in certain situations, and also, because I would
like Eclipse to have such a feature as I use Eclipse for most
of my
projects. I also want to
state that I am particularly interested in the [Folding for
Java code blocks] project! :)
These being said, for the last few
days I started reading the documentation for JFace, SWT,
Eclipse JDT and how Eclipse works general. Also I've started
discussing with more experienced java programmers to have an
an idea of how could I achieve this.
I read bug 60929 and also became interested
in bug 63808. Also, is this the google project mentioned? ( "Google
Code project apparently includes an implementation, but I
haven't looked at the it, I don't know how good/useful it
is, and the project seems to be dead." )
What would be the next step in my
application? I have added my name and e-mail adress to the
GSOC2013 ideas page, for the two projects. Should I try
and contact the owners of the code on the google
repositories, to ask them about the state of their
implementation? Should I submit a patch to the selected
projects until the GSOC formal applications start? I would
really like to get involved :)
It's my first year of
participation, I don't know exactly how this process
works..
P.S. Thank you Marcel Bruch
for pointing me to the right mailing list!
I am looking forward to hearing
from you!
Best of wishes,
Jurjiu Catalin George
GSOC2013 Aspirant Student