Re: SoC 2007 ideas

["Xan Lopez" <xan lopez gmail com>]

Hey,

On 3/12/07, Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Xan,
>
> Op maandag 12-03-2007 om 09:51 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Xan Lopez:
>
> > >       * Requirements: Existing knowledge of RDF gives a head start, some
> > >         background in user interface design is preferable.
> >
> > Just my opinion, but I'd say other than knowing C and being familiar
> > with the GNOME stack there's really no strong requirements here.
> > Whatever RDF knowledge you might need for this I suppose it shouldn't
> > be too hard to learn,
>
> Well... A lot of small things shouldn't be too hard to learn, but I
> imagine that with only a few months time, candidates would like to
> get down to coding rather than study theory first. What do others think?

For one, myself not really knowing anything about the theory behind
this I should not have even commented about it in the first place
but... My point is: if the number of students knowing C, GNOME, and
willing to hack on Epiphany is probably quite small already, adding
the requirement of having some expertise in RDIF will only make that
number much closer to zero than we'd like it to be.

But again, if you think it's important, let's go for it.

> >  and certainly the UI can (and will!) be openly discussed in the
> >  list/IRC.
>
> Of course.
>
> > Other than that it's just perfect, thanks for handling this and let's
> > hope it gets accepted :)
>
> There's one little problem still: So far, only Jamie has indicated that
> he'd be willing to mentor the Tracker part of this project. Do you think
> you could handle the code part? Myself, I have a firm grasp of the
> concepts and UI ideas and I could assist with that, but completely suck
> at C so I don't think I'd be much help in that regard.

I'd be happy to review the general quality of the code, but for the
general design I think we really need to get Christian on board :) I
don't think it's right for anyone but him to make big decissions about
the Epiphany architecture.

> regards,
>
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