On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ximin Luo <xl269 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 02/13/2010 03:38 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > > She can and will not do this if she has to work with FProxy because > FProxy > > is an ungodly mess, and her expertise is with GWT. > > I think really the main issue is switching out FProxy. This will take a lot > of > effort and people aren't ready to commit to it, especially people that are > used > to working with FProxy. > They will be able to continue to work with FProxy, the new UI will be designed in parallel and will only become the default when it has reached a sufficient level of functionality. > For this reason, I think it'd be easier to have someone completely new to > the > project, to work on what you're suggesting; maybe a couple of GSoC > students. > There needs to be a lot of base stuff done before pupok can start with her > stuff, and this will take a long time to do. > Several problems: We've had a lot of GSoC students, but we've never had a designer. Pupok is only available now because her current employer is shutting down and she doesn't have much work to do for them. She almost certainly will not be available to work on this after April. We have to take this opportunity now, or it could be another decade before we have another opportunity to bring Freenet's UI up to the standards of contemporary software. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: ian at sensearray.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100213/f8299936/attachment.html>
