There's no point in having our GSoC applicants wasting time working on proposals that we aren't really interested in, that another developer is already half-done implementing, or that are just plain bad ideas. So please take a look at the project ideas page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011#Project_ideas
and help me get rid of anything that wouldn't be a good student project.
If you could take a moment to skim the page and do this tomorrow or over the weekend, that would be great -- I've already had to redirect a few students once #mediawiki folks let me know that their first-choice project ideas were bad.
Thanks, Sumana
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@panix.com wrote:
There's no point in having our GSoC applicants wasting time working on proposals that we aren't really interested in
Who is "we" the wikimedia foundation? the medawiki developers? someone else?
If anyanything they should be striked though (<del>whatever</del>) so people can still see that they were there and left a note as to why they were "bad"
On 03/24/2011 07:17 PM, K. Peachey wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswarasumanah@panix.com wrote:
There's no point in having our GSoC applicants wasting time working on proposals that we aren't really interested in
Who is "we" the wikimedia foundation? the medawiki developers? someone else?
By "we" I meant "MediaWiki developers".
And by "aren't really interested in," I should clarify that I'd like for us to remove from the page ideas that people do not want incorporated into MediaWiki in any way -- core, extensions, scripts/utilities/gadgets, etc. If you look at an idea and think, "even if this were well-implemented I wouldn't want us to merge it in," please remove it.
I also want us to remove ideas that students could not possibly reasonably do in a summer, or that another developer is already half-done implementing (and doesn't want a student developer's help with it).
If anyanything they should be striked though (<del>whatever</del>) so people can still see that they were there and left a note as to why they were "bad"
OK! I figured people would leave their reasons for deletion in the Summary line as they revised the page, but strikethrough works too.
-Sumana
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