{"id":74,"date":"2009-07-05T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/?p=74"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:51:35","slug":"taking-the-left-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/2009\/07\/05\/taking-the-left-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the left fork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Of my initial project (16-bit support), all that remains to be done is to document the API on the wiki. My mentor, Sev has requested of me that I move on to improving the keymapper, which he sees as a much higher priority than scaler and backend support for 24 or 32 bit color formats.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with that assessment, and I can\u2019t really say I was looking forward to upgrading the scalers.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, I am providing a new planned timeline:<\/p>\n<p>Optimistic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jul 5th \u2013 Jul 6th: Fully document the API in this blog, doxygen, and wiki.<\/li>\n<li>Jul 7th \u2013 Jul 10th: Midterm evaluation for google, and any finishing touches necessary for the API docs.<\/li>\n<li>Jul 11th \u2013 Jul 13th: Begin research on the keymapper<\/li>\n<li>Jul 14th \u2013 Jul 28th: The vacation I mentioned in my application, possibly continue research on the keymapper.<\/li>\n<li>Jul 29th \u2013\u00a0 Aug 5th: Design and implement the requested enhancements.<\/li>\n<li>Aug 6th \u2013 Aug 17th: Improve scalers, gui, and SDL backend to support 24 and 32 bit pixel formats, if time permits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pessimistic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jul 5th \u2013 Jul 11th: Fully document the API in this blog, doxygen, and wiki.<\/li>\n<li>Jul 12th \u2013 Jul 13th: Last minute midterm evaluation for google, and a round of Q&amp;A to finish the API docs.<\/li>\n<li>Jul 14th \u2013 Jul 28th: The vacation I mentioned in my application, begin research on the keymapper.<\/li>\n<li>Jul 29th \u2013\u00a0 Aug 17th: Design and implement the requested keymapper enhancements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of my initial project (16-bit support), all that remains to be done is to document the API on the wiki. My mentor, Sev has requested of me that I move on to improving the keymapper, which he sees as a much higher priority than scaler and backend support for 24 or 32 bit color formats. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/upthorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}