After a pretty intense semester my group and I are gearing up for the final push to the finish line. I have to say that I am extremely pleased at our efforts and enjoyed working with everyone. We accomplished everything we set out to do and I am confident that each of us has learned much in the process. With our success in finishing the 5th bug on our list (and several improvements before that) I honestly believe that we have made a real contribution to Sugar Lab’s Lemonade Stand!
Next on our agenda is to get these different patches we created submitted for Nathaniel's approval and hopefully integrated into the official Lemonade Stand source. We discussed this earlier and decided it was appropriate to send a different patch for each of our improvement/bug fixes so that he can accept them one by one--or if there is fix that we made that Nathaniel is not satisfied with, he can leave that one patch out without denying the others. Getting these patches submitted--along with our rough draft of our presentation is our priority this week.
While I am relieved that the semester is coming to a close, I must admit that this course in particular became enjoyable when we changed our focus to Lemonade Stand. Since it is such a new program, there were many different areas that definitely needed to be flushed out and quite a few bugs that had not been discovered. Our earlier foray into RapidSMS was valuable--but since it was an established organization with MANY followers, it was very hard to figure out how we (with our experience) could contribute. Lemonade Stand was perfect...it offered us many things we could immediately see as problems. We could work on these problems while not having to worry that someone else (outside our group) would solve it before we did. Hopefully we'll see all our hard work included in the next git release of Lemonade Stand!
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