Fair enough. My goal was never to shut down collaboration, and if GSoC will do that then I am happy to drop it. The money was never my motivation, and I will definitely still contribute what I can.
Best, Alex Ogier On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Alex Ogier wrote: > > To Adrian specifically: You have indicated on this list that you are eager > to have at this problem yourself, and that may make this proposal a > non-starter. I think we are very much on the same page in terms of > technical direction and end goals of the refactoring: I want to make this > change as conservative as possible from a technical standpoint, but > document, test and validate it as much as possible from the community's > standpoint. I think we have strong motivation for the specific decisions we > agreed on, and they give the project enough direction that it will rapidly > become obvious if and when I am derailing your conception of what needs to > be done, so I hope you will consider letting it be done as a GSoC project. > > > The issue is specifically that GSoC does not allow collaboration -- all > the code needs to be written by the student. There's a lot of people, > including Adrian, who want to contribute; doing this as a GSoC project > would actively prevent them from contributing. Auth refactoring really > can't be a GSoC project, sorry. > > If you really want to work on auth, you'll need to do it outside of GSoC. > If it's an issue of money making the difference between being able to work > on the project and not, then let me know. We can perhaps look at taking the > costs until the DSF's wing instead of GSoC, and thus not get into the way > of Google's rules. > > Jacob > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
