Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:23 AM, PRADEEBAN KATHIRAVELU
<kk.pradeeban@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am highly motivated with the idea of "Porting AbiWord for Windows to
> Unicode", as suggested and researched by Jordi Mas. I am using Windows
> XP, and I am a regular user of Unicode, actively involving in ta-LK
> localization. I have decided to choose this as my GSoC Project, as it
> suits my area of interests as well as my knowledge.
>
> With reference to the thread
> [ http://abiword.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2007/Apr/0031.html ]
> I am also in an opinion that the option 1 is the best choice, as
> already discussed by the developers.
>
> As mentioned by Hubert Figuiere, the users who didn't bother to
> upgrade their OS will not bother that much to update their
> applications. Hence dropping the support of the older and almost
> obsolete versions of windows seems to be the best option for me, which
> also suits the time span of the GSoC. However, after the GSoC period I
> will involve in the work toward the goal of making unicows work on top
> of the Unicode build.

Adding unicows support probably won't be necessary. The 2.6 series
doesn't work on Win9x, and I don't see anyone spending time on the
issue (for more info:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11542).

>
> I will use Indic Languages for testing to find and fix the bugs in the
> code, as I am very familiar using them.
>
> Knowing the requirements mentioned in the threads as well as the
> AbiWord wiki, I would like to know more on this particular project,
> and suggestions.

You can get a better idea of some of the existing problems by looking
at bug reports in Bugzilla (I selected the 'Front End - Windows'
component and added the 'intl' keyword to get the following list:
http://tinyurl.com/abiwin32unicode). To help your application, you
can read the reports to identify problematic areas that you can
address in your proposal and later fix during your project. This will
also be helpful when you plan a rough timeline for the summer.

I hope that provides you with a good start :).
Received on Sun Mar 8 18:53:00 2009