On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote:
> Is there a candidate? Why don't you ask them what they are interested in, > if there is one. Or do you have to come up with a project to attract > someone? > yes, I got in touch with a student interested in GSoC. It's hard for somebody very new to the project to find something that is reasonable to do, and big enough for a summer project. We were looking at the most voted issues in jira and pretty much all of them require a new pom model. > > On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Carlos Sanchez <car...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Realistically, look to plugins more than the core, if you ask me. > >> There's the new not-quite-consumer-pom which might have a subtask. Or > >> pick any of the common plugins and see what's out here. > >> > > > > I thought about that, but for GSoC it needs to be something at the ASF, > and > > not Codehaus > > And is there any new feature big enough to make it as a summer project? > > would need to be almost a new plugin > > > > > > > >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Carlos Sanchez <car...@apache.org> > wrote: > >>> There's a student interesting on doing the GSoC with the Maven project > >> so I > >>> was trying to figure out a meaningful project, not to small, not too > >> large, > >>> focusing on the top voted issues in jira. > >>> But most of them are related to POM and profiles new > >> features/improvements > >>> which are not clearly defined/agreed on yet. > >>> > >>> Anyone has other suggestions? > >>> > >>> Cheers > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/takari_io > --------------------------------------------------------- > > What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people can > fix bad ideas, but good ideas can't save bad people. > > -- Paul Graham > > > > > > > > > >
