Interested in contributing to LibreOffice GSOC 2016

[jan iversen]

Chris@ even though a bit late, could you please formulate your idea with a title etc, and put it on the GSoC ideas page so we do not have multiple places to track the ideas.

thanks in advance
rgds
jan i.


> On 09 Mar 2016, at 23:53, Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 10 Mar 2016, at 6:07 AM, yeliz taneroğlu <yeliztaneroglu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Everyone,
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>> I hope you are well. My name is Yeliz and I am a 3rd year student in a Computer Engineering program. I'm interested in "Refactor god objects" project for GSOC 2016. I read this https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Refactor_god_objects .
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>> My accepted patches for LibreOffice until now.
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>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/19792/ 
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/19671/ 
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21614/ 
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21858/ 
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21888/
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21936/ 
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/22020/ 
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/22940/ 
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>> I want to work in this project. Thank you so much for your time and I look forward to hearing from you. 
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
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> 
> Welcome aboard Yeliz :-)
> 
> As it turns out, I’ve got an idea I’ve been toying with for ages, so I might as well put it out there. 
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> One of the issues with the VCL module as it currently stands is that the OutputDevice class is pretty massive. I would be good to be able to make a compilation firewall for this class, and at the same time split up the functionality into seperate classes. 
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> Some time ago I rearranged the OutputDevice source files into a more logical structure - they can be found here:
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> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/vcl/source/outdev/
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> My idea was that all these cxx files now logically group related functionality and could be converted into “Helper” classes, and we reference these as private member variables using a pImpl pattern. Public functions (that are indeed truly public) are then forwarded to the Helper classes. 
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> The advantages are mainly in compilation time and code flexibility, but also any of the other advantages to setting up a compilation firewall would apply also. 
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> If you’ve never heard of a Compilation Firewall, the description of my idea above is essentially what it achieves. However, I *really* recommend reading Herb Suttor’s article on the technique here:
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> http://herbsutter.com/gotw/_100/ 
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> Perhaps I should log an easy hack. 
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> Anyway, that would be something I think could be done - it’s a reasonable difficultly level, but not too difficult for someone who knows C++. I would really love to see unit tests of the helper classes, which would really help make the code robust. 
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> If someone else wants to chime in here, please feel free :-) However, I’m happy to chat on IRC - come to #libreoffice-dev on freenode; my nick is chris_wot
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> Chris 
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