KWOC’20 REPORT

About KWOC

Kharagpur winter of code is a 5-week long program organized by KOSS,IIT Kharagpur to encourage student community into open-source development mainly targeted towards the beginners.

About myself

My name is Lanka Lakshman Mohan(Lucky-321 on github), a third year dual-degree student from IIT Kharagpur. This is one of my early contributions to open-source if not the very first.

About choosing projects

I thought of making contributions to two of the projects listed. The first one is Productivity_meter and Cryptopy being the other. I thought of making contributions to Cryptopy as I am a quant enthusiast but had to drop the idea because of time constraint. I have choosen Productivity_meter because the project isn’t quite big as I am a beginner and I wanted to do a project involving javascript.

About project

I have contributed to Productivity_meter project fruitfully. So,I will only explain about Productivity_meter only. Whenever we are solving/practicing problems(cp,math,etc..,),the actual time we are devoting to solving problems is quite less compared to total time spent. So, our application aims to measure the productivity in solving problems which in turn helps us to be cautious about time wasted. So, If a person want to take break for some time during solving problems then we can notify him after his break duration was completed(break duration depends on the value entered by client)

Contributions

The first contribution I made was to the notification branch of the project. The feature that we are providing is notifying the client when the the time is up(time he was given as break duration). We are taking the break duration he wanted to take as input and checking if the value that he entered is acceptable or not.

https://github.com/Raghwendra-Dey/productivity_meter/pull/66

The second contribution is about correcting the mistakes in documentation of the project(readme.MD). Earlier, the instructions for making contributions to the project are unclear and incorrect. I have corrected the mistakes.

https://github.com/Raghwendra-Dey/productivity_meter/pull/74

Remarks

I was mentored by Raghwendra dey. His guidance has been phenomenal throughout the kwoc. He was quite friendly and helpful without whom I wouldn’t have made this far.