2009/8/10 Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com>:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:41:14AM +0200, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> As for actual deliverables, i'm not too picky, just as long as there
> is a tarball which is a bunch of patches or a git repo, or something
> that Google requires.
Hmm. That is a reasonable interpretation but seems to miss the spirit
of the matter. When I see a project with a goal of, "Web-based
wysiwyg DocBook editor for Fedora Docs," I presume there is going to
be a working instance of something at the end.
If all we had was a tarball + patches, we'd be far from a
working-to-use system. For example, this is why the Beacon packaging
was suggested in the original proposal to begin ASAP -- so the package
would be available to Fedora Infrastructure for their build-out of the
"working instance of something."
In my GSoC experience, projects that focus on a working web service
(for example) with a minimum feature set are more successful than a
complete feature set in a tarball + patches.
I think that goal was clear to Satya and yourself, so this is just
further encouragement to keep it a high priority.
Let me clear this up. That's what Satya needs to deliver to Google in
order to get paid. In order for me to pass her though, i want to see
something working, namely a demo online that people are evaluating.
-Yaakov