Hello Vinay,
> I was thinking of applying for the implementation of gnulib-tool in Python.
It will be exciting to see you apply!
> I've been coding in Python for the last few years.
This is a good starting position for this project, indeed.
> I wanted to know what the mentors expect out of applicants before the
> submission of proposals.
As explained in the Google FAQ [1], question "What should an application
look like", and the GNU specific guidelines [2], section "Your proposal",
we expect you to think a bit about how you want to organize yourself to do
the job.
In particular, for this rewrite task, where the goal is to have a 'gnulib-tool'
that works identically to the previous one but is more maintainable, you can
ask yourself the questions:
- How to do the rewrite? (top-down design, or line-by-line translation,
and/or refactoring)?
- Whether to write unit tests that check the expected output and, if so,
when (after, during, or even before the rewrite)?
I await your application!
Bruno
[1]
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html
