Re: Back to work with revised to-dos

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2009/8/10 Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:41:14AM +0200, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
>> As for actual deliverables, i'm not too picky, just as long as there
>> is a tarball which is a bunch of patches or a git repo, or something
>> that Google requires.
>
> Hmm.  That is a reasonable interpretation but seems to miss the spirit
> of the matter.  When I see a project with a goal of, "Web-based
> wysiwyg DocBook editor for Fedora Docs," I presume there is going to
> be a working instance of something at the end.
>
> If all we had was a tarball + patches, we'd be far from a
> working-to-use system.  For example, this is why the Beacon packaging
> was suggested in the original proposal to begin ASAP -- so the package
> would be available to Fedora Infrastructure for their build-out of the
> "working instance of something."
>
> In my GSoC experience, projects that focus on a working web service
> (for example) with a minimum feature set are more successful than a
> complete feature set in a tarball + patches.
>
> I think that goal was clear to Satya and yourself, so this is just
> further encouragement to keep it a high priority.

Let me clear this up. That's what Satya needs to deliver to Google in
order to get paid.  In order for me to pass her though, i want to see
something working, namely a demo online that people are evaluating.

-Yaakov

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