Re: [GSoC] Looking at the proposals ...

Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> writes:
> One additional proposal has been filed:
>
> * revision analyzer (Gang-Han Lee)
>
> The proposal has been posted to the dev list, too. It is about representing
> statistical information about commits graphically. I would not consider
> this task part of Subversion itself. The proposal does not explain
> how this task would be integrated into the Subversion core either.

The "core" vs "external" division is merely about code modularity -- it
says nothing about relevant a given project is to actual users.

It's fine for an SoC project to result in a separate tool that works
*with* Subversion. The driving criterion here should be "Will this
project result in something that Subversion users want to use?" not
"Will this project result in something checked into the subversion/
subdirectory of our repository?" Only the former matters to users!

So if it's something we _can_ mentor, and it would result in a better
Subversion user experience, then IMHO it qualifies.

-Karl

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Received on 2009-04-03 20:47:15 CEST