From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Young <youngar17@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 Student Application
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 08:23:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BF15866B-0983-4D09-8117-B19A00FC6CB0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMvvmF_vMpGAXS03siz+OktgUJsRBZ=B419qLpHG=q4ySFdCBg@mail.gmail.com>
On 5.4.2012, at 13:49, Andrew Young wrote:
> Hello Bastien,
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Andrew Young <youngar17@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> My name is Andrew Young, and I would like to participate in an Org-Mode
>>> project for GSoC 2012. My application for the project 'Git merge tool for
>>> Org files' can be found
>>> here<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/pwyl/1#>.
>>
>> Great!
>>
>>> I would appreciate as much feedback and criticism as possible.
>>
>> First of all, make sure someone can co-mentor this project. I'm willing
>> to mentor this (as the current maintainer it makes sense, especially for
>> people judging the project from the outside), but having Carsten as a
>> co-mentor would be a great win. Make sure Carsten (cc'ed) is okay.
>
> I will send him a personal (private) request.
>
>>
>> Carsten, being a co-mentor involves mainly three things:
>>
>> 1. registering on google-melange.com
I have registered as a mentor, username cdominik. I have not yet found how to do:
>>
>> 2. from there, requesting to be a mentor for the GNU project
>>
>> 3. during the project, help the student and have IRC/phone meetings,
>> at least when I'm not here (I expect to be off for 2-3 weeks this
>> summer, I will tell when ASAP)
Yes. I am a phone/skype guy, not an irc guy.
- Carsten
>>
>>> I used the generic GNU Project student application template, which can be
>>> found here <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/gnu>.
>>
>> 1. First things thing: you should rewrite the "summary" section to
>> remove the "I believe" and other informal writing from Carsten's
>> prose. Make it yours, make it a real summary.
>
> I found the GNU Application template confusing, and was not sure if
> the summary was supposed to be written by me, or copied from the ideas
> page (to clarify what project idea I was referring to). I followed
> your advice and wrote my own project summary, since that seems like
> the better idea.
>
>>
>> 2. Refer to org-element.el when you mention the Data representation.
>> org-element.el will be key in representing data and diffs between
>> data (at any level.)
>>
>> 3. Add a documentation section, explaining what doc you will write and
>> how you you will write/host it (worg is fine.)
>>
>
> Thanks for the pointers. I've incorporated your advice into the proposal.
>
>>> I have some specific questions:
>>> 1. There is no implementation details or decisions in my application, just
>>> a basic plan of what needs to be done. Should I start researching
>>> implementation details for my application?
>>
>> You can look at org-element.el for the data representation.
>>
>>> 2. I would like to post my application on the community site Worg. If
>>> this is appropriate, what is the proper channel to request GIT access?
>>
>> Send me your public key.
>>
>>> If this mailing list is not the appropriate place to discuss my
>>> application, please let me know and then feel free to email me directly. I
>>> will also be spending as much time as possible on freenode #org-mode as
>>> Pwyl.
>>
>> This mailing list *is* the appropriate place, no worry.
>>
>> Thanks again for your proposal, this would be a great plus for Org!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Bastien
>
> Thanks again for your suggestions and pointers.
>
> My public key is attached.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
> <youngar17@gmail.com.pub>
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-05 4:25 Google Summer of Code 2012 Student Application Andrew Young
2012-04-05 6:48 ` Bastien
2012-04-05 7:46 ` Torsten Wagner
2012-04-05 7:46 ` Torsten Wagner
2012-04-05 11:20 ` Andrew Young
2012-04-05 11:49 ` Andrew Young
2012-04-05 12:59 ` Bastien
2012-04-05 13:36 ` Thorsten
2012-04-05 14:07 ` Bastien
2012-04-06 7:57 ` Bastien
2012-04-06 9:40 ` Thorsten
2012-04-06 10:44 ` Andrew Young
2012-04-06 6:23 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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