Re: [Urgent] GNUstep at Google Summer of Code'2009

[Markus Hitter]

Am 12.03.2009 um 16:47 schrieb Xavier Glattard:

> Adam Fedor a écrit :
> > >
> > Also, please try to make sure any ideas are something that could  
> > easily get done by a student in a summer (so, perhaps, it is  
> > something you could do in a month of work).
>
> Then I have to forget half of my ideas : in most case I'm not sure  
> of anything. Some ports might look easy (small apps), but will  
> involve a lot of CF conversion. I agree : some of my suggested  
> projects might be huge for one student. But for 2 ? And I could  
> keep on the work when the summer will gone for some of these  
> projects in which I'm interested.
>
> I'm sure nobody could port OpenOffice in a summer. But this project  
> might lead to some CoreFoundation compatible functions :)

I fear it isn't very encouraging to start a project if you already  
know it isn't doable in the given time frame. If you plan for 4  
weeks, however, you still often have to rush to get done in 2 months.  
There are quirks, there are unexpected bugs, there are unforseen  
delays and average students are usually no GNUstep experts. Better a  
small thing done well and debugged than yet another half baked, dust  
assembling pile of code.

You are working on CoreData? How about a student coworker doing a  
CoreData <-> PostgeSQL backend?


my $0.02
MarKus


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