Re: Fw: Re: [Savane-dev] About Savane with python

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On 4/3/12 5:26 PM, Sylvain wrote:
> That's the main issue: Jordi pushed this idea and offered mentorship,
> but he's not related to Savannah or Savane and didn't contact either
> project.  Moreover, his attitude is now affecting the image of these
> projects and GNU.
>
> Also, Savane is not a GNU project and didn't express the wish to be
> associated with Google.

Savane != Savannah, Savane is merely the software Savannah runs.

> As a consequence:
>
> - the "Savane" confusing section of the GSOC ideas must be removed
>    _right now_

I agree, remove it for now.

> - in a second step, I think Michael or somebody from the Savannah team
>    (but nobody else) may submit an idea and propose a mentor

> > Michael, must we drop the idea/project?  AFAIK Sylvain started a rewrite
> > of the savane codebase some time ago... could this effort benefit from
> > the SoC idea?
>
>    One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of
>    code. — Ken Thompson
>
> I don't have a definitive opinion, though don't throw a student on a
> project if there's nobody to maintain it afterwhile.

I'm not personally going to maintain the Python version of Savane, so 
I'm planning, and have been planning, on starting a rewrite from 
scratch.  All I can say here is that you're just going to have to trust 
me. :-/

I'd love to have a student help out and should have probably paid 
attention to the GSoC announcement so that we could have formulated a plan.

Right now there are two things a student could do that would be very 
helpful.

1) Help with UI overhaul to make Savannah look more modern (in PHP 
codebase).
2) Write a project evaluation tool.