Community Bonding Ends!

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Greetings!

Yesterday, the community bonding period was completed. I feel excited and overwhelmed as I enter the coding period, though I am sure GSoC 2019 will prove to be a great opportunity in learning various technologies and contributing towards my first open-source project.

During the community bonding period, I had two meetings with the mentors, specifically in 17th and 26th May. The first meeting proceeded with our personal introductions and a small discussion about how and why the project was initially developed. This GSoC project will not only improve the ModelPolisher but provide inter-cultural work experience to the student and the mentors.

Also, the following guidelines will be followed in this project:
  • Use of GitHub Project tool for maintaining project workflow abstractly.
  • Open a branch develop from current master.
    • All the features and bug fixes will be added to this develop branch.
    • After completion of a group of bug fixes or features, develop can be merged in master.
In the second meeting, introductory mail was sent to the target audience and the student-mentor agreement was created and signed by the mentor and student both.

Wish me luck for the coding period.

Thank You.

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