On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:31 +0530, Vamsee Kanakala wrote: > Santosh wrote: > > Plugins are small time not really > > worthy of becoming projects. Just my thoughts. > > > > I have to disagree again. I've seen my share of fresher CVs, and if > there's anything remotely related to something "wrote an xyz plugin for > gedit", trust me, it would get my attention. Unfortunately most of them > are so boring (and sometimes irrelevant) that my eyes glaze over. > > And I don't think plugins are 'unworthy' of becoming projects - there's > plenty of cool stuff you could add to gedit. Perhaps code-folding. > Snippets (a la Textmate). Adding some sort of compile/console plugin > targeting a new language. From what I heard, implementing tab completion > can be pretty challenging. Very few editors do it right. > > Either way, my emphasis was not particularly on how challenging the > subject itself is, but rather getting the experience of contributing to > an open source project. That is more in line with what a fresh engineer > is likely to do (or prove more valuable) once he/she gets out of college. >
This time got to agree. Getting involved is important here. They will gain confidence once started to work. Santosh _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
