[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Kow
Hi, (carefully avoiding your name :-P) On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 16:08:18 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Tomorrow, I will discuss with the first half of my student project students > (3 students) about what exact topic they will pursue. My idea is to let them > start a Grapefruit-based darcs GU

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2009 16:18 schrieb Eric Kow: > Hi Wolgang, Hmm, wrong again. ;-) > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:53:23 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > > What do you mean with “something which will make it much easier for third > > parties to write a GUI in the future”? > > Kari's example o

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-21 Thread Eric Kow
Hi Wolgang, On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:53:23 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > What do you mean with “something which will make it much easier for third > parties to write a GUI in the future”? Kari's example of GUI-friendly optimisations might be one thought. More generally, I was thinking of s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-20 Thread Malcolm Wallace
> > That is correct. The haskell.org mentors decided to spend the money > > on hosting the haskell.org and community.haskell.org web sites and > > services, to benefit the whole community rather than just > > themselves. > > Hmm, mentoring a project also benefits the whole community and not > jus

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 12:37 schrieb Malcolm Wallace: > > > Unless Google's changed things, the organization gets 500$ for each > > > project. What the Darcs organization does with that, who knows. > > > > Yes, who knows. The Haskell organization didn't give a cent > > to the mentors, as f

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-19 Thread Malcolm Wallace
> > Unless Google's changed things, the organization gets 500$ for each > > project. What the Darcs organization does with that, who knows. > > Yes, who knows. The Haskell organization didn't give a cent > to the mentors, as far as I know. Am I wrong here? That is correct. The haskell.org mento

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 05:10 schrieben Sie: > Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > > I’ve put myself as a potential mentor on the old Haskell SoC ticket > > (). However, > > one or two years ago I was told that mentoring is a very time-consumi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 10:54 schrieb Eric Kow: > The first is to work towards a sort of graphical interface for darcs (as > has been suggested on this list). I suspect that we what we will likely > do with this idea is to refine it into something that may either be > part of a GUI (like a p