Re: [SPAM] Re: GSoC 2014

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 19.02.2014 18:41, schrieb David Kastrup:
>>
>> There is a three-month limit as far as I can see.  There seems little
>> point in proposing stuff that a student cannot realistically be expected
>> to wrap his head around in the given time frame.  The GUILEv2 migration
>> is a project where you need to build and work with a rather confined set
>> of expertise and then continue applying it until you get to the end.
>>
>> I think that has a reasonable chance of fitting in the time slot without
>> previous heavy exposure to the LilyPond code base.  It's not a given,
>> but it has a reasonable chance.  With something vague and complicated
>> like "tie crusade" or "slur formatting", I don't see anything happening
>> with a tangible result.
>
> That may well be true, and my suggestion wasn't too educated.
> But I had the impression that at least the Tie project was of a
> reasonable size,

What _is_ the "tie project"?  There are lists of ugly ties.  That's not
a project.

> and equipped with enough pre-research.

I don't see anything that would serve as either a direction or a
starting point.

-- 
David Kastrup