<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tom Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@compton.nu">tom@compton.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote:<br>
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For example, one of the requirements in the "simple editor" that I've<br>
been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast<br>
"nearest way" lookup. I imagine something like that could be written,<br>
documented, and demonstrated in one Summer.<br>
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We've had lots of projects in previous years that were written, documented and demonstrated. Then they sat in svn slowly rotting for evermore...<br>
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I'm not quite sure what you're actually suggesting here - if you're talking about a new API call for the rails port to return the nearest way to a point then that is certainly not a big enough project to be GSOC worthy - it's little more than a few hours work.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>The point I was trying to make was to break down big projects into smaller more manageable pieces and to bring those up as suggestions rather than saying something like "let's not do GSoC because we only have ideas for huge projects."</div>
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