I am delighted to announce that I am mentoring Adetoye Anointing for the December 2024 round of Outreachy. Anointing will be working on librsvg, on implementing the SVG2 text layout algorithm. This is his first blog post about the internship.
There is a lot of work to do! Text layout is a complex topic, so rather than just saying, "go read the spec and write the code", Anointing and I have decided to have a little structure to our interactions:
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We are having two video calls a week.
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During the calls, I'm sharing my screen to walk him through the code.
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I'm using my friend Abrahm's Pizarra and a Wacom tablet to have a "digital chalkboard" where I can quickly illustrate explanations while Anointing and I chat:
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Conveniently, Pizarra also produces SVG files from whatever you doodle in it, so it's easier to include the drawings in other documents.
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We are using a shared document in pad.gnome.org as a development journal. Here I can write long explanations, leave homework, link to stuff, etc. Anointing can put in his own annotations, questions, or anything else. I'm hoping that this works better than scrolling through a Matrix chat channel.
I have big hopes for this project. Please welcome Anointing if you see him around the Rust ♥️ GNOME channel!