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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:40:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sp9my5m.fsf@jane> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a83x93tl.fsf@zoho.com>


On 2017-07-21, at 18:01, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:

> Mario Krajačić wrote:
>
>> I am student of IT from Croatia on finishing
>> year for my bachelor's degree.
>>
>> For the graduate thesis I would like to
>> contribute some open source project.
>> For example it can be some bug fix.
>
> For a bachelor degree report, it should be more
> than just a bug fix. It should be a small
> module, which is to your liking from day one.
>
> It shouldn't be a bug fix as that would be too
> small and confined, also, it would be defined
> by what other people haven't done - and why?
> because it is too trivial or uninteresting or
> what is there already is a total mess? all red
> flags. If your project is about what other
> people have not done, it should be because they
> haven't thought about it at all or only dared
> dream about it :)

Just my 2 cents: not necessarily, see all the discussion on emacs-devel
about bug#21072.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski



  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-21 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-21  8:46 I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Mario Krajačić
2017-07-21 16:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 18:40   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2017-07-21 20:01     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-22  4:10       ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-22 16:19         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-27 23:15       ` Ken Goldman
2017-07-27 23:27         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-28 18:55           ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-28 19:50             ` Drew Adams
2017-07-29  2:30               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-08-03 17:39                 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-29  2:22             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 18:30 ` Kevin Buchs
2017-07-21 19:58   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 21:16 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-07-21 22:17   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-21 22:22   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-22 20:55     ` Tomas Nordin
2017-07-22 21:37       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-25 17:39         ` Mario Krajačić
2017-07-25 18:30           ` Emanuel Berg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-07-22 13:33 Richard Melville
2017-07-22 16:25 ` Emanuel Berg

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