On Apr 6, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Wm Tarr wrote: > On 2012-04-06 15:49, John Ralls wrote: >> There's no requirement that the contribution be related to the student's >> proposal -- but Ngewi, if you don't know C or Scheme well enough to fix a >> bug, we need to figure out something else that you can do. The more folks >> involved in brainstorming that, the better. > > I find this assertion disturbing. Scheme is odd, C as implemented in GnuCash > is odd. Are the applicants not allowed to normalise interfaces, for example? > > Remote devices aren't my interest, interfaces I am interested in. > > I'm feeling mildly pissed off because some people clearly want to code and > are being put down. I don't say the monster mods are bullies as such but I > do think ideas should be allowed without reversion to the put down of "make a > patch", etc :(
What's disturbing about saying that he needs to be fluent in the languages in which Gnucash is written in order to be able to quickly write a patch to Gnucash? What is "normalizing an interface", how would he do so for Gnucash in something other than C or Scheme, and if that's feasible, how does it fall outside of "figure out something else [he] can do"? Nobody is being "put down". We're trying to find a way for a prospective student to meet Gnome's requirements for getting a GSoC slot. If you have a constructive suggestion, please offer it in enough detail that Ngewi can act on it. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
