On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:>
So here's my advice.
Pick something really small that you know you can finish in three months. If you finish too soon, we can give you something else to do.
As a past student GSoC participant w/ boost, I strongly second this advice. I started my GSoC project with a finished prototype, rewrote and expanded it during the project term, then rewrote most of it about twice more afterward, submitted for review, and then rewrote it again after the review. It's been 2 years now, it's still not finished. For me at least, boost has a tendency to give new ideas and teach new ways of doing things that make everything you've already finished seem "not quite satisfactory". I'd suggest proposing a project which can be redesigned, reimplemented, retested and redocumented a few times during the GSoC period :-) Best, Stjepan