Hi Rajeev, Rajeev Sampath <[email protected]> wrote on 03/23/2010 11:16:38 PM:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Michael Glavassevich <[email protected] > > wrote: > Hi Rajeev, > > Rajeev Sampath <[email protected]> wrote on 03/22/2010 12:14:04 PM: > > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > >> Hi Rajeev, > >> > >> Only one of the projects from last year's idea list was completed > >> for GSoC 2009. All of the others are still available and have posted > >> to JIRA as potential ideas for this year. I just mentioned a few > >> other possibilities on the mailing list [1]. > > > > Thanks Michael for your reply. I had a serious look at the mail > > archives only after I posted the previous mail and noticed that > > there have been a few students already working on some of the ideas. > > I'll try to work on something avoiding overlappings. > As I mentioned to Udayanga you don't have to limit yourself to the > project ideas we've posted in JIRA so far. There are other areas in > need of help and just suggested a few more. > > Thanks for pointing out the possibilities, however for this GSoC, > I'm interested in another idea on Apache Tomcat as well, and thought > I'd rather concentrate on that as a GSoC project. Good luck with your proposal for Tomcat. From my past experience in reviewing submissions to Apache it's a very good idea to focus on building one or a few strong proposals rather than submitting a large number of them that may not be so strong.> > I've worked with XML stuff for some time now, so familiar with it > and also have interest in working on parsers (I haven't dealt enough > with Xerces internals yet). So I thought about working on one or a > few of those remaining ideas later outside GSoC since Xerces/J seems > to be interesting for me. That's great. Looking forward to hearing from you in the future. > Btw, I see no one in user mailing list has ever asked about Xerces > support for DSD. :O Possibly an awareness thing more than anything else. If you don't know it exists you wouldn't ask for it. I've been around a long time and I didn't even know about it. > Regards, > Rajeev Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
