Now Accepting GSoC 2016 Mentor Organization Applications

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Feb 9 06:07:27 PST 2016


On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 03:04:50PM +0100, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 06:59:48AM +0100, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
> > > Den tirsdag 9. februar 2016 skrev Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>
> > følgende:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Finally - what would the projects be this year? Is there anything that
> > > > people
> > > > have in mind that can be done by a student and that couldn't be done
> > much
> > > > easier by one of the potential mentors?
> > > >
> > >
> > > The dive site implementation needs a lot of love (and an UI).
> >
> > Yes, and the likelihood of a student getting that right and not driving
> > the mentor into alcoholism is what, 0.4%?
> 
> You really belive that an UI that lists dive sites with add/remove/edit
> capability (trac #973) would be that hard?

Well, we have seen the six iterations to get where we are today.

> The only reason the first step was so painful was that noone went for a
> minimum viable product.  It blew out of proportion with an too advanced UI
> and complex features.

Excellent analysis.

Are you volunteering to mentor that student?

/D


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