Hi Russell, Thanks for the response. Clearly I don't have enough time to prove my eligibility to pull it off. Guess I will hang around here outside GSoC and look forward to contributing till the extent of my capabilities :).
Regards, Nimesh Ghelani On Friday, May 3, 2013 7:00:33 AM UTC+5:30, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:31 AM, nimesh ghelani > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hey, >> Will like reviews on my proposal >> >> https://gist.github.com/nims11/dbd2f52677377eb60c07 >> >> Hi Nimesh, > > At present, this isn't an especially compelling proposal. > > The bulk of what you're proposing is extremely vague. The #10929 default > NULL issue is well known and understood, but detail on your other proposal > goes no further than "should be simpler". We agree. Now, how are you going > to do that? You haven't given an API proposal, and you're not previously > known to the wider community, so we can't judge whether you have good API > design skills, or whether you've looked at any of the internals to > determine if what you're proposing is technically feasible given the > existing infrastructure. > > On top of that, based on no experience with the query internals, you've > assumed that you'll be able to understand the internals of Django's query > engine, and then design and get consensus on an API plan in a 2 week > window. That's… ambitious. > > Then you've got a 7 week block to implement this plan. This sort of > granularity gives us no confidence that you in any way understand the task > ahead of you. If you can't provide a plan at the granularity of days, or a > week at the *most*, then it's safe to say you haven't actually thought in > detail about the complexity of the problem you're proposing to solve. > > You're proposing a deep dive into the internals of Django's query > infrastructure. Committing to being a mentor for the GSoC is a big > commitment, and there is a limited number of people who are in a position > to mentor you on this project. When combined with the vagueness of what > you're proposing, you haven't exactly inspired the confidence you'll need > to convince someone to commit to mentoring you. > > If you want to be selected for the GSoC, you'll need to provide a lot more > details -- most importantly, evidence that you've thought about the problem > at a level beyond "this looks like a nice problem". > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
