On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote:
> Hi Satinderpal -
>
> Thanks for your effort! Unfortunately, I think you've still got a long
> way to go.
>
> Your proposal is fundamentally quite vague. You seem to understand
> some of the problems with the current forms API, but I really can't
> tell exactly what you plan to do about it. The actual meat of your
> proposal ("Goal") is a scant two paragraphs that doesn't really go
> into any detail about what you're proposing. There's something about
> additional attributes, and then a vague notion about dynamic forms,
> but that's it. You need to be a *lot* more specific and in depth.
>
> There's been quite a bit of discussion around forms these last few
> days -- see especially the posts the by Carl and Russ -- but you
> haven't really addressed the concerns raised in those threads. Again,
> you need to really demonstrate you understand what you're proposing to
> do.
>
> A previous summer of code forms project failed; what have you learned
> from that, and what makes your proposal different?
>
> Moving on to the timeline, you need to be more specific here, as well.
> For example, you say you need to spend two weeks "adding the template
> widgets". OK, so what about that project takes two weeks? What does
> "adding widgets" mean? Which widgets? Is there an order to what you
> plan to add? Some groundwork to lay first? Etc. You need more detail
> here, too.
>
> Then you go on to say that you plan to spend two months on
> "miscellaneous work". I'm sorry, but we're not going to mentor a
> project that sets aside two months for "miscellaneous".
>
> One week is about *minimum* amount of granularity you should have
> here; anything rougher shows you haven't thought through the steps
> clearly enough.
>
> You've also left testing and documentation until the end, which also
> isn't OK. If you've spent any time around the Django project you
> already know that testing and documentation are something we take
> incredibly seriously. They have to be do at the same time as the code;
> they're *not* an afterthought. You should writing tests and docs along
> with -- or even before -- your code.
>
> I hope this gives you some good ideas on how you might be able to
> improve your proposal into something we could accept. As I've said
> before, this is an area that really needs some work, so I would love
> to see a GSoC project tackle it. But I can't accept a proposal on
> faith; I need to see that it's something with a realistic chance of
> success.
>
> Good luck,
>
Thanks Jacob for your feedback and valuable suggestions, as i am very
late on this project but i'll try my best to take your suggestions in
account and will try my best to improve the proposal.
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Satinderpal Singh
> <satinder.goray...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Given below is the link for my proposal for the GSoC 2013, please give
>> me the feedback about the proposal.
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SirpfF0KXGq-GGU9iAhuEi1IbVOuXNzj8LKrLG1_1zQ/edit
>>
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