Hi, I have read through the list at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/SummerOfCode and I think we need to triage the list and try to come up with fewer but more detailed proposals. Here are some comments to get us started: Color management I guess it's up to me to come up with a more detailed proposal here. Resource management This looks like a nice project but perhaps needs to be specified better. Create an SDI manager widget Do we really want to ask someone to waste his/her time with this? It is in my opinion not implementable in a sane way and we would likely not accept the results then. If this is supposed to be kept on the list then we need to agree first that we really want such a thing. Plug-in stability effort The proposal concentrates on possible crashes when plug-ins are passed invalid PDB data. Is that really an issue that is worth working on? It would probably be a lot more worthwhile to improve the PDB API and to add better checks in libgimp. Additional file format plug-ins Shouldn't this perhaps be titled "Improve MNG support"? On-canvas text editing Nice, but pretty much depends on the port of the display code to Cairo. Perhaps concentrate more on rich text support instead of focusing on the on-canvas editing? Search-based menu browser Nice and probably even reasonably well specified. The student should perhaps do some usability work on this him/herself (with the help of an expert). Unified UI for scripting I don't understand this proposal. We provide unified widgets for this in libgimpui and our scripting interfaces use them (well, perhaps Perl-Fu doesn't). So the look and feel should already be pretty much the same. IMO this proposal is based on wrong assumptions. Perhaps what's really needed is a maintainer for perl-fu. Redesign and reimplementation of Save and Export in GIMP. We really need to do this, finally. Unit testing framework Tests are definitely needed but we might want to make it clearer what exactly needs testing. Meta-data plug-in I would love to see the metadata plug-in finished and the framework used from other file plug-ins. This is crucial for 2.6. Probably up to Raphael to decide if making it a SoC project can help to make this happen. Work on GEGL Needs a more detailed spec, perhaps even a list of proposed projects. SVG brushes Sounds like a nice project for the SoC. Benchmarking The text for this does IMO focus too much on the actual optimization work while it should probably focus more on what we expect from a benchmarking framework. Should probably also include regression testing as it helps a lot to also have a regression test when doing optimizations. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
