----- Original Message ----- From: Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 01:10:30 +0300 To: Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:15:08PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > As a fallback for students who don't want to join an existing project, > > the current scheme may be chosen. The "objectives", "goals", and > > "design" stages, however, will be waved for those students who choose to > > join an existing project. > > > > > I believe that by saying that these targets should be waved when > joining an existing project you are shooting yourself in the leg. This > is so because it sounds to me as if you are saying that these targets > are not applicable for someone who just joins an existing project for > a short term. Yet these targets should be very important to the > students career and there fore will not be waved by the university. Yes, but this is not a software design workshop as I understand - it's an open source development workshop. Hopefully the students are already familiar and comfortable with good design and coding practices. Otherwise nobody will ever allow them to commit their code. In > fact, some people might claim that they are more important then the > actual code because a good and detailed design pretty much dictates the > actual code. Saying it otherwise, a good and detailed design can be > implemented in a technical manner and one doesn't have to take an > undergraduate (or do we talk about a graduate?) course for implementing > one. > > As an aside, and in order to avoid making people feel that they are > forced into Linux, what about porting an open source project to MS env? > I believe that even with cygwin or a similar Unix libraries there would > be plenty to do. > -- > > Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t Alexander Maryanovsky. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
