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Author: fre...@witherden.org
Date: Fri Sep 4 03:06:18 2009
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+#summary A report on the GSoC 2009 Mathtex project
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+= Introduction =
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+My name is Freddie Witherden and I participated in Google Summer of Code
2009. I currently study Physics at Imperial College London and am going
into my second year. Although my project was officially being mentored by
John Hunter, of matplotlib, I was closely involved with the SymPy project
throughout. The objective of the project was to externalise the LaTeX
rendering engine in matplotlib into its own project.
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+= Progress =
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+Although I was not extremely familiar with the code before starting Google
Summer of Code I did have a good working knowledge of LaTeX as well as the
needs of the community. In fact, my main motivation for doing the project
was to solve a real-world problem that I was having.
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+It is my experience that the most successful projects are those in which
the team has a vested interest in their success. Having this also helped to
provide me with additional motivation while working on the project.
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+The first few weeks were spent familiarising myself with the code and
setting up a basic structure for the project. While most Summer of Code
proposals involve working with an existing project mine was the opposite --
splitting an existing project up. The knock-on effect of this was that I
had to focus more time on administration and project management than most
students. This is not inherently bad -- but it did reduce the amount of
coding I was able to accomplish.
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+The externalisation was completed within the first month. The remaining
time was spent implementing users requests, adding regression tests, tiding
up the structure of the project and of course, fixing bugs. In addition a
week or so of the project was spent working on matplotlib. The goal was to
get matplotlib to use the newly externalised library. This was successful,
however the work still needs to be merged back into the main-line of
matplotlib.
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+= Conclusion & Future Directions =
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+Overall the project was a success. In doing so I learned both how to
set-up and administer a project as well how to better respond to users
requests. The final product ("deliverable") is both functional and easy to
use. However, there is still much to be done. I plan to continue working on
the project for the foreseeable future.