>> [...] Thanks to the similar GSoC project last year, there should >> only be incremental improvements necessary and not the need to >> start from scratch. As far as I can see, the migration of the CI >> to the gitlab instance at freedesktop.org is 100 to 200 lines of >> code, improving the UI is basically a few hundred lines of CSS. >> This can be done over a weekend. > > Adding a frontend framework or using bootstrap will definitely take > some more time
Of course. Multiple solutions are possible! >> Basically I don't mind if there are two students who want to split >> a suggested project into two subprojects. Note, however, that GSoC >> doesn't allow real collaboration: The students must write separate >> proposals that must *not* refer to each other, must code by >> themselves, etc., etc. It is a non-trivial task to cleanly define >> such non-interfering subprojects. > > If i am not getting it wrong you mean to say that we should make > different different proposals mentioning separate jobs but related > to the same framework improvement, like we have to divide the tasks > in such primary level and will give it to our proposal, that means > that this project can be divided and we have to mention only those > things in our proposal that is earlier assigned to us to do under > this project, half-half. Yes. However, I don't say you *should* do this. What I say is that two students *might* share a project in a 'friendly' way as two completely separate subprojects, with no official collaboration between them. > As i can see GSoC is not about competitive spirit it's about > collaborative spirit so it might be possible that we can do it > better somehow in a team sense. and i have seen many orgs going the > same and it is suggestion by me in my humble opinion, Am i taking > your point right? So that i can make him aware of that... GSoC is about collaboration, yes – between the student and the members of the organization under the supervision of one or more mentors. However, GSoC is competitive between students, and *no* collaboration between GSoC students is officially wanted. Werner