Re: GSoC 2014

[Janek Warchoł]

2014-02-20 10:58 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Janek, David, Urs,
>>
>> I agree, that the shape-project in fact is a project *and* IMO it is a
>> very important one.
>> But if I understand Davids concerns correctly, I agree, that it will be
>> difficult to define boundaries for this project.
>
> Well, let's put this in perspective.  This was a call on the GNU
> maintainer list for proposing projects within 12 hours.  That basically
> requires turnkey-ready proposals, and Urs volunteered what basically
> amounted to buzzwords referring to ongoing work that had no obvious
> publicly available roadmap or shape.  By the time the flames dies down,
> there were few hours left anyway.
>
> We have had previous experience with a Google Summer of Code project.
> With a somewhat less general goal fleshed out in an itemized list of
> specifications rather than a list of bad examples, requiring less
> geometric work and iteration over shapes, and starting with a student
> where "100 hours to get acquainted with the code base", in my opinion
> quite too optimistic for a task of the tie formatting kind, was not even
> required since the code base was known.
>
> At the current point of time, there are almost no tangible results in
> LilyPond proper.
>
> I see no reason to assume that we'll fare better with a larger task that
> is less clearly defined, placed on a student not previously acquainted
> with the LilyPond code base.
>
> Also a GSoC project requires a mentor and the obvious choice for this
> task, namely Janek, is currently suffering a severe shortage of time.

Ok, you're right.  After the emotions faded away, i agree with your
reasoning.  I apologize for overreacting.

best,
Janek