Week 8 of my Google Summer of Code journey with CircuitVerse (July 13th to July 19th) was a pretty big one — Midterm Evaluations! 🥳
After seven weeks of building the canonical pipeline, this week was mostly about wrapping up the first half properly, getting my open PRs merged, and waiting for that one green check on the GSoC dashboard.
📝 Writing the Midterm Progress Report
I started the week by finishing my official Midterm Progress Blog for CircuitVerse. You can read it here.
Writing it made me realise how much the project had changed since the first proof of concept. What started as a small JavaScript experiment had now grown into a deterministic, type-safe export and import pipeline using things like 1-WL, Kahn's Algorithm and SHA-256 hashing.
It was genuinely satisfying to look back at everything in one place.
🛠️ Two More PRs Through Review
My main coding focus was getting the two Pull Requests from Week 7 through mentor review:
- 📦 PR #1131: The complete canonical JSON import pipeline with round-trip verification.
- 🖥️ PR #1132: Connecting the canonical export/import pipeline to the actual simulator UI.
The reviews caught a few important edge cases I had missed, including making sure exported project files stayed strictly in the .cv format and cleaning up the remaining legacy save/import behaviour in V1.
I addressed the review comments, pushed the fixes, and by the end of the week both PR #1131 and PR #1132 were merged! 🎉
🥳 MIDTERMS... PASSED!
Then came the part I had been waiting for all week.
On Friday night at around 11:30 PM, I opened the GSoC contributor dashboard and finally saw it:
PASSED! 🚀
I just stared at it for a while. The first half had been full of graph algorithms, TypeScript refactors, review comments, bugs, demos and a lot of late-night debugging, so seeing that green result felt amazing.
Passing the midterm also meant receiving my first developer stipend, which made the milestone even more special for me.
🔮 Looking Ahead to Phase 2
I spent the weekend resting and celebrating a little with family and friends.
The core canonical export/import pipeline is now in a much stronger place, so the second half can move toward the remaining work:
📜 JSON Schema validation
🧪 Writing tests
🔄 Auto Layout Feature
The first half of GSoC has genuinely taught me a lot.
Midterms done. Time for Phase 2! 🚀🔥
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