"Pavel Raiskup" <xraisk00@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have one theoretical question -- what if the benchmarking/study of > histogram diff leads to conclusion that this algorithm will not be > useful for upstream? Does it mean "fail" in terms of GSOC? Not necessarily. A negative result is often as valuable as a positive result. It will take a clearly good implementation to justify why a negative result is a success, though. If it is clear to the reviewers that the implementation is poorly done, the negative conclusion does not necessarily mean that use of the histogram algorithm is a bad approach---it would just mean the particular implementation that didn't implement it well was, and then the GSoC task may have to be marked as a failure. But otherwise, if the submission is done with the usual code quality we would expect from contributors and explained well in its log message (either positive or negative), I would say it should be considered a "success". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html