Re: [Inkscape-board] (Updated) [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013

13 Jan 2014

      a.
Cheers,
Josh
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Johan Engelen
<j.b.c.engelen@...51...> wrote:
...
a.
On 13-1-2014 22:09, Bryce W. Harrington wrote:
...
Johan pointed out we're probably going to have a tie for 10th place, so
we've added section (5) to address this.  If you've already voted,
please re-vote on this.  If you haven't yet voted, please vote against
this updated version rather than the original.
B.

           Developer Education Book Campaign 2013

Proposal:

Purchase and distribute a programming book to the top 10 Inkscape

contributors for the past 12 months, as calculated by Ohloh.net:
   http://www.ohloh.net/p/inkscape/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo

The contributors can choose from one of the following books:

i) Effective C++, 3rd Ed.
      by Scott Meyers
   ii) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
      by Martin Fowler
   iii) A Tour of C++
      by Bjarne Stroustrup

The campaign proposer (Johan Engelen, or their designee) will be

empowered to officially announce and introduce the campaign to the
   larger community.

The board chairperson (or their designee) will be empowered to

i) Identify the qualified contributors as per (1), ii) Contact the
   qualified book recipients to collect their address and choice of book
   from (2), iii) Purchase and disseminiate the books to the provided
   addresses, iv) Collect reimbursement from SFC for expenses incurred.

If a recipient does not respond within a week, or chooses to

pass on receiving a book, the next person in the list will receive it.
   In the case of a tie that would necessitate extra books be purchased,
   up to 12 total books maximum can be provided, in order to solve the
   tie.
[ ] a. Yes, conduct this campaign as defined above
   [ ] b. No, we should not conduct this campaign
   [ ] c. Maybe, but I disagree with some definition of the campaign
Background:
Lately, I've become obsessed with code quality. I've been reading
Bjourne Stroustrup's "bible" on C++11, watched all videos of the
"Going Native" conferences, started using clang, ..., and it has made
me much more aware of the language's facilities for preventing bugs. I
regularly browse over Inkscape's code and try to fix things I think
can be improved (janitorial); our source is a pretty big mess
I really do think Inkscape can use some love to improve logic and to
decrease some amount of spaghetti.
I just saw the book "Effective C++", which I believe is a great resource
to inspire thought and learn how to write better code, and is meant for
experienced programmers.  In general: how do you guys feel about
donating something [like this book] to our top committers for their
"education"?  We would need some metric of what "top committers" means,
we could use ohloh.net's numbers.
*For example*, we have 10 people that committed more than 50 times in
the past 12 months. So that'd be 10 books = 10 x 31 euro = 310 euro
cost --- shipping and whatnot --> 400 euro cost.
(After we release 0.91, I will become very active in pushing for C++11
(i.e., upgrading our compiler dependencies to more modern versions so
we can start using part of C++11 features), and general maintenance /
refactoring / cleaning up. It's pretty rewarding I find, and very
low-key in terms of long-time brain-investment.)
Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-board] (Updated) [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013

Josh Andler