Hello Aman,
> I have read archive on orgs. Mailing list. I have some doubts, as > this year's GSoC time is reduced to half, which implies that project > should be smaller, and what sarthak have stated in his earlier mail > (four or five points), is quite tough to be completed in such a > short span of time, that is migrating CI, improving UI and > comparison sol. apart from that if one will approach towards what > one of the mentors have suggested i.e image generation it will be > quite hectic to manage in only 10 weeks and also to adjust in your > proposal's timeline. I assume that you are talking about the project Develop a test framework for checking FreeType's rendering output right? If this is the case, I disagree with your conclusions. Thanks to the similar GSoC project last year, there should only be incremental improvements necessary and not the need to start from scratch. As far as I can see, the migration of the CI to the gitlab instance at freedesktop.org is 100 to 200 lines of code, improving the UI is basically a few hundred lines of CSS. This can be done over a weekend. Note also that it is up to the student to write a proposal that fits his or her capabilities, possibly selecting only a subset of the project as described on our GSoC page. It's part of GSoC that students estimate the necessary time for something – as in real life projects, if you are going to work for a company, say. > Or is there any probability that for a single project there can be > more than one students in GSoC(many orgs do so). I think this can > create some good condition to work on, as for rest of the projects > stated in the list, i haven't seen too many students approaching so > far. That will be beneficial for the smooth process. Basically I don't mind if there are two students who want to split a suggested project into two subprojects. Note, however, that GSoC doesn't allow real collaboration: The students must write separate proposals that must *not* refer to each other, must code by themselves, etc., etc. It is a non-trivial task to cleanly define such non-interfering subprojects. > P.S- I have not seen his proposal yet but i am assuming he have > mentioned it all that he have stated in his mails for freetype. > > And i will also be sharing my proposal draft very soon. Thanks! Werner