Re: [boost] GSoC 2011 - Do we need to starting thinking about it?

Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC 2011 - Do we need to starting thinking about it?
From: Tim Blechmann (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-25 12:43:28

> Did you feel that you spent too much time cutting code?
> 
> And/or too little producing documentation, examples and other things that
> would 'sell' the project and get enough users with experience enough to get
> to a review?
> 
> I suspect that any projects have far, far to big ambitions, when what we
> probably most want out of a project is a *finished* job.

well, a boost libray is not `finished' when coding/documentation is done, but 
when the actual code becomes part of boost. so even if a student has the 
ambition of finishing coding/documentation/examples/benchmarks, the work is 
easily lost.

but maybe it would be a good project to finish a library from earlier years, 
including the review at the end of the gsoc period (maybe with the mentor as 
review manager).

tim