Re: [Gimp-developer] GSoC project query

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 2018-03-05 05:29 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> The main reason why GIMP stopped doing GSoC is because we were giving the
> students very awesome projects, and even though the final results were
> very cool proof-of-concepts (so the students did do very good work), they
> were not finished (either extremely buggy, with bad standard code, or so 
> slow that it was unusable on real data, etc.) and they had been a dead 
> weight to the GIMP project for years (even nowadays, some older student
> projects are still making issues).

Having read the above I had the idea that it could be worth having a student 
work on one or more of the previous GSoC projects instead of adding 
something new which could become another bit of dead weight. Have them make 
a previous GSoC project work faster, or improve the coding style, fix bugs, 
add missing pieces, or just add the polishing touches.

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