Absolutely! BTW what timezone are you in? 2014年3月16日 上午4:49于 "Darshit Shah" <[email protected]>写道:
> Hi Zihang, > > There's some improvements, but some of the areas are still missing. > > Can we have a discussion sometime on IRC regarding the same? > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:29 PM, 陈子杭 (Zihang Chen) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, Darshit. > > > > Thanks a lot for the advice. Just updated the proposal hosted on gist. > > > > https://gist.github.com/mad4alcohol/9487859 > > > > > > 2014-03-14 21:03 GMT+08:00 Darshit Shah <[email protected]>: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Darshit Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:53 AM, 陈子杭 (Zihang Chen) < > [email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> Hi. > >> >> > >> >> I just uploaded my proposal for GSoC 2014 on melange. Looking forward > >> >> to > >> >> your feedback :) > >> >> > >> > You should preferably mark it public, and give a link here, so that > >> > everyone, even > >> > those not registered on melange can read and review your proposal. > >> > > >> > ================ Proposal Review =============================== > >> > > >> > Your summary seems fine. You could expand on the deliverables a little > >> > more. > >> > What is suggest is you separate the deliverables from the plan and > >> > technical > >> > details. What will you deliver? That is what should come there, not > >> > *how*. > >> > > >> > You can/should explain the how as a subsection under your plan. Also, > >> > what library do you intend to use? And how? > >> > > >> > In the summary and plan you state you wish to refactor the current > code. > >> > But > >> > you provide no idea at all about what is wrong and how you plan to fix > >> > it. > >> > > >> > I found your timeline lacking in a few aspects: > >> > 1. The final selections are announced on 21st April. Your timeline > >> > starts on 19th > >> > May. > >> > 2. What do you plan on doing between now and 21st April? > >> > 3. The community bonding period is an important part of the program. > >> > It is completely > >> > missing in your proposal. > >> > 4. You are already working on, and have almost completed the > >> > refactoring patchset. I > >> > don't see why you'd need 2 weeks to refactor it more. If you have any > >> > further plans > >> > about changes, you should state them in the proposal. > >> > 5. I don't see the point of spending one week of coding time in > making a > >> > design > >> > document. This is should be ready before coding begins. > >> > 6. I'm glad you're upfront about your exams midway through the > program. > >> > We can > >> > work around it without any hiccups. > >> > > >> > Speaking through experience, I'm not so sure if having a part-time > >> > internship > >> > simultaneously along with GSoC is a good idea. It usually takes a lot > >> > more > >> > time than you expect right now. And neither will your internship be > >> > any easier on > >> > you. In the end, you will either forego one for the other, or end up > >> > sick. > >> > > >> > Also, in my opinion your timeline needs some more thought and work. > And, > >> > again, > >> > from experience, make it fine grained. Think more about each step and > >> > you'll find > >> > you've missed something, or the times just don't add up correctly. > >> > > >> > Usually, slots of 2 weeks are preferred. That also matches the > timeline > >> > you > >> > suggest for discussing things over with your mentor. > >> > > >> > As suggested in the FAQ, you should really keep the time between > >> > suggested > >> > down and firm pencils down to clean up your code and wrap things up. > You > >> > *will* need, and I repeat, you *will* need the whole week to wrap up > >> > and get your > >> > code ready for merging. > >> > > >> > >> Also, please edit your title to reflect which project you're applying > >> for, i.e. Wget > >> in the beginning. GNU has lots of projects and it should be easy to spot > >> which > >> ones are for Wget. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thanking You, > >> Darshit Shah > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Chen Zihang, > > Computer School of Wuhan University > > --- > > 此致 > > 陈子杭 > > 武汉大学计算机学院 > > > > > > -- > Thanking You, > Darshit Shah >
