Hi,
That sounds like a good idea, and that's what I should have said before -
sorry about that. After all, ultimately it's up to the students, not me or
anyone else, what projects get done.
-Yaron
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Stephan Gambke <s7ep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >> > it doesn't seem important enough, in my opinion, to get a slot in the
> >> Google Summer of Code
> >>
> >> I tend to agree here. There are things in greater demand that would be
> >> useful to more people that could be done. However, I think this idea
> >> should go on the GSoC page regardless. If we get a very capable student
> >> for it, and have less success for other ideas, then it might very well
> >> be worth the effort.
> >>
> >
> > +1
> > The purpose of GSoC is not only to benefit the host project but also to
> > allow fresh developers to pursue some interesting (for them) projects,
> > i.e., to learn something. So from this perspective, I would not stop a
> > good applicant who really wants to do this (or any other sound idea that
> > they really want to do). I am sure that the initial discussion with the
> > mentor can always lead to a project plan that maintains a good balance
> > between being useful and being interesting.
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your comments. What I will do is, I will add the task to the
> page with the understanding that other project ideas will have
> precedence if there are applicants for them.
>
> I guess I will also have a closer look on Page Extensions. I'd rather
> not use Lua for this because 1. this would indeed mean introducing
> another language for specifying things in forms, 2. MW itself does not
> support Lua yet and 3. I simply do not have any experience with it. Of
> course, the whole thing would need to be discussed with the student and
> the result could well be to go for Lua anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephan
>
>
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