On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 03:44:03PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Here is the breakdown for the voting on this issue:
Josh Andler Yes Tavmjong Bah unknown Ted Gould Yes Bryce Harrington Yes Johan Engelen Yes Tim Cole unknown Jon Cruz unknown
With 4 yes votes we have a majority decision.
Johan, please go ahead and proceed with step #3. Once that's done, I'll follow up with step #4.
Bryce
Good news everyone!
The process has taken me a lot longer than I'd anticipated, but 9 of the 10 books are now mailed out. SFC says it should take about a week to arrive for people in the US, 2 weeks for Canada, and up to 4 weeks for Europe. I'll try to remember to follow up with everyone this time next month to make sure everything got to where it's supposed to go.
Book #10 is having a surprising amount of trouble finding an owner. I decided not to let it delay the other 9 further.
Bryce
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:59:50 +0100 From: Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...31...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013
Hi Bruce, I thought I had already re-voted, sorry.
I vote a. Yes
Cheers, Johan
----- Reply message ----- From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...> To: "Johan Engelen" <j.b.c.engelen@...51...> Subject: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013 Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 02:43
Btw, I need you to officially re-vote for the update so it's on record.
Bryce
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:29:20PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
a. YES
- Johan
On 13-1-2014 9:46, Bryce Harrington wrote:
A majority Board vote is required for the following proposal.
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:
a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) 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.
[ ] 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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