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Weekly Check-in #7

aravindm711
Published: 07/22/2021

Hello everyone!

1. What did I do this week?

I have been working on resolving the merge conflicts that came about as a result of merging the develop branch into the gsoc branch that I'm working on. Since, I hadn’t merged develop into my branch before, I had to adapt the changes that I’ve made to the new changes and refactor the tests based on the new changes. By the end of the week, I was able to successfully resolve the merge conflicts and refactor the tests for the new GUI.

2. What is coming up next?

In the upcoming week, the target would be to implement the new profile window and get started with the implementation of the new configuration editor.

3. What did I learn during this week?

I learned that it was a standard practice to periodically merge the active development branch, in our case the ‘develop’ branch, into the branch I’m working on, to get the latest changes and proceed with my work based on that.
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Weekly Check-in #6

aravindm711
Published: 07/11/2021

Hello everyone!

1. What did I do this week?

I have been working on integrating the plugin feature with open, save and add project (browse) functionalities, to directly support importing/exporting flight track info in multiple formats. I have also been working on refactoring the tests, since the development of the new UI is almost complete.

2. What is coming up next?

In the upcoming week, the target would be to complete the refactoring of tests and to implement the new profile window.
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Weekly Check-in #5

aravindm711
Published: 07/04/2021

Hello everyone!

1. What did I do this week?

I have been working on modifying the handling of view windows when created through MSColab. I have also made some UI improvements to the main window, as requested by my mentors. We had a productive discussion in our weekly meeting and my mentors feel my project is heading in the right direction, as of now.

2. What is coming up next?

In the upcoming week, the target would be to add some functionalities and possibly start working on the new profile page.

3. Did I get stuck anywhere?

I haven’t faced any issues in the past week.
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Weekly Check-in #4

aravindm711
Published: 06/27/2021

Hello everyone!

1. What did I do this week?

I have been working on merging functionalities of MSColab into the MSUI, throughout the week. During the weekly meeting with my mentors on wednesday, I presented my work looking for feedback and suggestions. We've also been having discussions about the behaviour of some parts of the software. Hence, the implementation of the new profile window has been postponed, as there is work to be done which is of higher priority, for e.g. refactoring of tests.

2. What is coming up next?

In the upcoming week, the target would be to refactor the tests and improve some of the functionalities after having discussions with my mentors.

3. Did I get stuck anywhere?

While presenting to my mentors in the weekly meeting, I had come to know about the different appearance of the views, if created through the ‘share’ tab. I did some research and found out that the problem was that the views inherit its parent’s stylesheet. Hence delaying the setting of stylesheet to the parent, fixed the problem.
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Weekly Check-in #3

aravindm711
Published: 06/21/2021

Hello everyone!

1. What did I do this week?

I started my week by submitting my first PR so that my mentors could get an update on my work, before our weekly meeting on wednesday. The PR involves implementation of the connect window on which I’ve been working on, throughout the first week. Since, at this point, there were only some tweaks left to be done to the UI design, I had started merging MSUI and MSColab functionalities.

2. What is coming up next?

In the upcoming week, the target would be to implement the new profile page for the user. This new window provides the user with functionalities like setting the display picture (through gravatar), deleting accounts.

3. Did I get stuck anywhere?

I haven't faced any issues so far.
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