Re: ideas for Google Summer of Code

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:44:44PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Graham Percival wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:46:22AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > - just mentioning their wishes, as others have done, is likely to be a 
> > >   waste of time, not to mention an annoyance to the others, as _there 
> > >   have to be competent mentors with enough time on their hands_ to do 
> > >   the job.
> > > 
> > > The last point cannot be stressed enough.  Too many people actually 
> > > expect others to do the work, and those would be well advised to just 
> > > go and do something useful instead.
> > 
> > I don't think that anybody here would question how much I work on 
> > lilypond.  In the summer I'll be back from NUS and with a decent 
> > internet connection again, so there's no problems there.  The only 
> > question is whether the project must include code or not, and their FAQ 
> > is pretty unambiguous that the answer is "yes".
> 
> Graham, you know exactly I was not talking about you.  I often mentioned 
> privately and publically that I really appreciate all you effort and I 
> know how much time it has taken.

Sorry.  I'm feeling a bit sheepish at the moment, I declared
myself the new release manager but haven't managed to make a
single release.  :(

I'm also far behind on my schedule for the CG -- and I pride
myself on making pessimistic estimates on the amount of time tasks
will take.  What's worse is that I can't see the situation
changing in the next week or two.

After that things should settle down.  Or rather, if they don't
settle down naturally, I'll put my foot down and *make* them
settle down.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham