Daniel Fagerstrom pisze:
You have done an excellent work Grzegorz. Unified expressions will
simplify usage of Cocoon and your refactoring will simplify
development of Cocoon. Above that you have done a lot of good
community and infrastructure work and helped revitalizing the
community. Thanks to all your discussions Cocoon has been rather
active during the summer.
During GSoC you had to force yourself to go in to part of Cocoon where
only the bravest dare to go, you killed some of the mosters that where
lurking there making it safer for the rest of us and managed to
survive the process ;)
Yes, those monsters was the hardest part. Thank you all for the support.
I would guess that GSoC was both tougher and more rewarding than you
had expected. During the summer you had to deal with the challange of
applying theory on complex "real world" problems, to prioritze between
what is important and what is not. Most of your co-students will not
get these learnings until they do they master thesis or start to do
work or research.
It has been a pleasure to see how you have matured and grown in
confidence both as a program developer and as a community participant.
For me it has taken a lot of work to participate in all the technical
discussions. But it has of course been very flattering to se my name
and suggestions cited all the time ;) And to see my vague suggestion,
be concretizied, improved and end up becomming working code.
While I have lot of expeience in teaching, coaching and mentoring IRL,
this is the first time I have mentored someone that I never have met
IRL, over email. I'm supprised that it has worked so well. An
important factor is that you have written so much on the list so that
I have been able to see what is going on.
I really, really appreciate your and other's effort by participating in
these discussions. I wanted to discuss everything for two reasons:
1. I believe in collaboration. It proved so many times that other people
can help one crack really hard problems.
2. Whenever I work with Cocoon I always have open browser with our
mailing list archives ready for searching. Because of this unwritten
rule that we discuss all major changes to the code I could understand
why certain piece of code exists, what's its use, why it was done
exactly that way, etc. Especially when dealing with Cocoon internals it
was invaluable help! While working on new stuff I wanted to contribute
both to our code repository and mailing list archives. I believe it
equally matters.
Thanks for you great work and dedication during this summer.
Thank you too!
Daniel, are you going to visit Rome in October?
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Grzegorz Kossakowski
