On Sunday 09 March 2008 05:30 pm, Thorsten Haude wrote: > * Randy Kramer wrote (2008-03-05 10:47): > >Also, we probably won't get everything I'd like to have in the first versions > >of folding--as much as possible I'd like to see that the initial versions > >don't preclude (or make particularly difficult) the eventual evolution to the > >more complex functionality. > > Good thought, I think. The first version should deliver a sound > structure more than pretty colors.
Thorsten, Thanks! I'd actually like to spark some discussion on that sound structure as soon as possible. If there is any chance that a GSoC student would decide to work on folding (and that assumes we get a slot), I think we need to be prepared to either tell that student (ideally via the Idea Page or something referred to there what we think will make a sound structure. The real point I'm trying to make is: ideally before he makes his proposal. Or, at the very least, we have to be prepared to vet his proposal to decide if it is a sound proposal. I say this for two reasons: * Asking him to design and program a sound structure sounds like a big task (too big for the GSoC) , well except that is essentially what I'm asking with the "extreme programming like" approach. * I'm assuming that, like the GSoC prohibition against documentation-only projects, a design-only project would not be acceptable. I have thought about proposing a design project with proof of concept code, but I'm not sure that would be accepted either. Randy Kramer -- NEdit Develop mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
