2014-02-20 10:58 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > Jan-Peter Voigt <jp.vo...@gmx.de> writes: > >> Hi Janek, David, Urs, >> >> I agree, that the shape-project in fact is a project *and* IMO it is a >> very important one. >> But if I understand Davids concerns correctly, I agree, that it will be >> difficult to define boundaries for this project. > > Well, let's put this in perspective. This was a call on the GNU > maintainer list for proposing projects within 12 hours. That basically > requires turnkey-ready proposals, and Urs volunteered what basically > amounted to buzzwords referring to ongoing work that had no obvious > publicly available roadmap or shape. By the time the flames dies down, > there were few hours left anyway. > > We have had previous experience with a Google Summer of Code project. > With a somewhat less general goal fleshed out in an itemized list of > specifications rather than a list of bad examples, requiring less > geometric work and iteration over shapes, and starting with a student > where "100 hours to get acquainted with the code base", in my opinion > quite too optimistic for a task of the tie formatting kind, was not even > required since the code base was known. > > At the current point of time, there are almost no tangible results in > LilyPond proper. > > I see no reason to assume that we'll fare better with a larger task that > is less clearly defined, placed on a student not previously acquainted > with the LilyPond code base. > > Also a GSoC project requires a mentor and the obvious choice for this > task, namely Janek, is currently suffering a severe shortage of time.
Ok, you're right. After the emotions faded away, i agree with your reasoning. I apologize for overreacting. best, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
