[Tcl-gsoc] Some clarification: What project ideas students should be focusing the most?

[Tomasz K. <tk...@da...>]

The question mark in the title was meant that I am just asking myself
not judging.

This way I've tried to say my list is *VERY* preliminary and not
complete. It will probably be discussed an reedited several times. It
was presented by me to reach final goal which is - I think - that
students need some help in understanding what lies beneath particular
ideas and this is very hard to grasp without watching/participating in
the community for a longer time.

I dared to repost below Jeff Hobbs private reply as it clarifies one
project as an example.

--tkosiak


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff Hobbs <je...@ac...>
Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Tcl-gsoc] What project ideas students should be focusing the most?
To: Radosław Szulgo <rs...@gm...>, Tomasz Kosiak <tk...@da...>


Hi Radoslaw,

The list is not comprehensive, but rather a short-list for projects
that we want to highlight.  Jacl is a perfectly acceptable choice from
the larger list (which I suppose should be linked from this shortlist
that Tomasz is creating).

Jeff

On 26/03/2009 4:46 PM, Radosław Szulgo wrote:
>
> Hello,
> few days ago, Tom Poindexter contacted with you about 'Jacl modernization' idea. Unfortunately, on list below there is no project about Jacl.  This mean that there's no place for Jacl this year? I ask because I don't know if I can apply for a Jalc idea at GSoC 2009 or should I select other project.
>
> -- Radoslaw Szulgo
>
> Jeff Hobbs pisze:
>>
>> On 26/03/2009 4:23 PM, Tomasz Kosiak wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I plan to create another wiki page to prioritize and explain more
>>> deeply the most promising ideas from our idea list. This is what I had
>>> done last year for Polish students and it allow them to dive more
>>> easily into the Tcl community / soure code (even as they were new
>>> commers). This makes me believe that it will be useful for other
>>> students this year as well.
>>>
>>> But I need your help to correct my poor the wording and my
>>> understanding as I can be sometimes wrong. When I will be ready I link
>>> this page from the top of our idea list and let you know be this
>>> mailing list.
>>>
>>> I feel that this year it is good to focus on:
>>> 1 string handling modernization (titlecase, unicode, ropes, etc)
>>> 2 regexp engine
>>> 3 http protocol code unification
>>> 4 Tcl application server
>>> 5 Tk printing
>>> 6 XLS in Tcl
>>> 7 Bittorrent & SSH in pure Tcl
>>> 8 native GTK, QT, Cocoa Title themes
>>> 9 Tcl on bare metal (embedded Linux / Solaris / QNX)
>>> and some more I haven't noticed yet
>>>
>>
>> I think that we should prioritize projects most likely to succeed and benefit the larger community.  In that sense, the Tk Demo Expansion would be better, but #9 above less so.  #6 may be nice for a niche project, but not sure overall.  #5 I think should be classified as hard ... unlikely to succeed.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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