On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:01:16AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > 1.) Replace lex-bison based parser with handwritten parser in gcalctool ... > I have the suspicion that the student will learn more than the > project.
The official response would probably be "that's a feature, not a bug". > Now it's not as bad as the first look: certainly more than half of the > projects are not of this "I could pull out my hairs" variety. And those > projects were likely accepted under the general GNOME umbrella rather > than individually, so they don't really have more elated status than our > GSoC pitch. Being part of an existing umbrella is vital. Doesn't GSoC get over a thousand applications? Think of the role that luck plays in hiring somebody for a low-level job. Imagine somebody shifting through 200 resumes, trying to find half a dozen to interview. I figure a human spent 5 minutes looking at the lilypond application before rejecting it. If I were doing it, I'd probably make my first pass rejections within 2 minutes for each application. *shrug* it's a lottery, not a competition. If you can't stand the heat... - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
