Working during Community Period is Awesome and is a great experience to me. This post includes my work which I have done during community period bonding i.e Pre-GSoC Phase Period. I utilized the community bonding period to discuss the deliverables with my mentors Peter Uhrig, Anna Wilson, and Vaibhav Gupta.
Also the I am very glad that I was a part of cohort meeting organized by Mark Turner.
Things need to be done during community Bonding Period (By Every Student in Red Hen Lab)
- Read the Accepted Students Information page
- Be sure to read the GSoC roles and responsibilities page so you know what is expected of you but also what to expect from your Mentor this summer. Talk to your mentor and community
- See the GSoC Timeline twice a month at least.
- Read about Red Hen Coding Standards
- Read about Red Hen Guidelines
- Interact with the mentors and other Red Hen members.
- Red Hen requires the code to be deployed in HPC servers. Below PDF contains some guidelines to access HPC server.
- Set up your Account on the Gallina [Credits: Xiaoyu Lu]
Things done during community Bonding Period
- Requirements elicitation i.e. requirements gathering followed by analysis and validation, reviewing and articulating the needs of the analysis for incorporating new proposed features.
- Rigorous discussion with the community on various possible workflows and implementations.
- Study the current code base in more depth and report all the bugs and Fix bugs as much as possible.
- Suggest more potential features which can be included.
- Improve the current User Interface.