Re: google summer of code

[Janek Warchoł]

2012/2/9 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> I don't think that we should aim this specifically at Phil (or at
> David); rather, we should ask if this is the kind of thing that we
> want to spend time on.

I think yes.
I'm a student and i'd love to spend my summer working on LilyPond.
The question is, do you think i qualify?

2012/2/9 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't think that we should aim this specifically at Phil (or at
>> David); rather, we should ask if this is the kind of thing that we
>> want to spend time on.
>
> Cutting out well-defined tasks taking a non-trivial amount of time is
> not, in itself, going to do much harm.
>
> Probably something like GSoC for "grace timing" would be overkill.
> OTOH, if a student starts from a blank slate and mentoring is not doing
> half the job already on its own, there might be less time left after a
> _good_ solution has been implemented than one might think.

Sorry, i don't understand.  Do you think that grace timing is too
small or too big for GSoC?

cheers,
Janek