[Bf-committers] Qdune code

[Joe Eagar]

Alexander Ewering wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Joe Eagar wrote:
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>   
>> Hay! That's not true.  I for one have spent maybe horrible hours trying
>> to get DSM ready since the end of SoC. And I'll be spending many
>> horrible hours more.
>>     
>
> That's of course very laudable, and I fear we would get off-topic with this
> discussion :)
>
> On the whole, I think the project deadline criteria in GSoC  were not defined
> well enough. There should have been a "No fully working inclusion in trunk, 
> no money" policy. Because as it is, dozens of thousands of dollars have been
> spent this and last year on coding hours (no matter by whom) which were lost
> in nirvana. And that's not always the pupils' fault.
>
>
> Alexander Ewering
>
>   
Well in my case it was decided to change the project goals halfway 
through.  I implemented exactly what I originally meant to a month into 
GSoC.  The time since has been spent mostly tracking down obscure bugs 
in the calculus-leaden full DSM implementation it was decided to do instead.

Also I have to disagree on such a policy; it'd encourage students to 
abandon projects if they feel theres no way to meet the deadline, even 
if they spend a great deal of time on 'em.  This year several of the 
GSoC projects did get pretty much working on-time (mine before goal 
changes, the audio one, GLSL and the bevel one I believe).  None were 
acutally merged into trunk, which is weird.  Certainly GLSL, bevel and 
audio seem to be relatively finished.

Joe