On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:32 AM, 陈子杭 (Zihang Chen) <[email protected]> wrote: > Absolutely! BTW what timezone are you in? > I'm in CET. You? Would something akin to 8:00am CET be fine with you
> 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 -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
