Re: Regarding GSoC 2012 project

I haven't investigated what work would be needed to complete those projects, nor do I have any idea of your capabilities so I'm not able to suggest a project schedule for you. You'll need to look at the code, and try to get an understanding of the requirements of each sub-project, and then estimate how long you think it would take you to complete them. I would then suggest doubling that estimate to allow for overruns and testing time. You should also bear in mind you'll need a week or so to get a build environment setup and become familiar with it, and that you'll begin the project with little experience of the code base and wxWidgets, so plan on a slow start to begin with. I will say that I think a competent C++ developer should be able to produce a polished, release quality result for this project in the time allotted for GSoC.

 

Research as mentioned above - and avoid under-estimating the requirements of the task (that's a common mistake, not just in GSoC, but in development in general). Show that you understand the project in the application, by including initial thoughts on how you think the code should be written (what are the important functions you'll have to modify, what will you need a parser for, how will the new features look to the end user etc)?