Thanks a lot respected Katrina Behrens. I was really disappointed by the people who said 'You should be a qualified developer'. I was very motivated to work with GSoC and tried my best to understand code. I just wanted someone to tell where to begin with. Few people have tried there best to demotivate me. Thanks again for encouraging me. Regards. <div class="gmail_quote">On 27-Mar-2018 6:42 PM, "Katarina Behrens" <<a href="mailto:katarina.behrens@cib.de">katarina.behrens@cib.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> As a GSoC > student you are expected to be a smart developer, able to dig into the > code, and to find code pointers yourself. That might be time-consuming and > one question makes sense, perhaps someone knows the answer off the top of > the head. But that happens not too often. Stating perhaps the obvious, the word "student" is derived from the verb "to study" ( = "to learn") i.e. it is someone who is learning things, not someone who is expected to know them already. Fortunately, most of GSoC mentors are aware of that. Moreover, "smart developer" is usually someone with multiple years of coding experience (and sometimes even that ain't enough *smirk*). In my particular case, this is some 12+ years of experience and I still need to ask other people for code pointers sometimes. Nobody expects me to always find them myself, quite the contrary. Asking for help (in contrast to banging my head against the wall ad nauseam 'cause I don't understand the code) is somehow smarter use of resources I have. Again, most of GSoC mentors know this and encourage students to reach out when they're stuck. > Last but not least I'm neither a > developer nor your mentor. And while I really appreciate any work on bug > 87892, solving a design only easyhack is not a proof of your coding skills > to me. IIRC, adding new shapes AND new categories to gallery in tdf#87892 requires some non-trivial knowledge of build system and it is neither "design-only" nor "easy hack" ... oh wait, you already mentioned you were not a developer ;-) -- Katarina Behrens Senior Software-Entwicklerin FLOSS ––– CIB software GmbH Geschäftsstelle Hamburg Flachsland 10 22083 Hamburg ––– T <a href="tel:%2B49%20%2840%29%20%2F%2028%2048%2042%20-235" value="+4940284842235">+49 (40) / 28 48 42 -235</a> F <a href="tel:%2B49%20%2840%29%20%2F%2028%2048%2042%20-100" value="+4940284842100">+49 (40) / 28 48 42 -100</a> <a href="mailto:Katarina.Behrens@cib.de">Katarina.Behrens@cib.de</a> <a href="http://www.cib.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.cib.de</a> ––– Sitz: München Registergericht München, HRB 123286 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Brandner _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a> </blockquote></div>