From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p1SEVaga003792 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:31:37 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsMHAK5Aa01QW+UMgWdsb2JhbACYMY4VFQEBFiIlvAuFYQSMHQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,239,1297033200"; d="scan'208";a="88836208" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Feb 2011 15:31:32 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu48G-0008D0-PT for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:31:28 +0100 Received: from avelizy-155-1-79-130.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr ([90.2.30.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:31:28 +0100 Received: from sylvain by avelizy-155-1-79-130.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:31:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20110228.093528.996524125295855263.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be> <1298902420.27243.42.camel@thinkpad> X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-155-1-79-130.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Subject: [Caml-list] Re: GSoC: better UTF-8 support On 28-02-2011, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Am Montag, den 28.02.2011, 09:35 +0100 schrieb Christophe TROESTLER: > >> Is this enough for a GSoc proposal (seems a >> little light to me)? > > Honestly, this is not the type of work that is well-suited for GSoc. You > need to only change code, not develop something entirely new. Also, you > need to dig into very different parts of the code base - and you need > broad knowledge how everything interacts. > I am not a GSoC insider, but projects for GSoC can perfectly be about extending an already existing projects. We even decided to focus on ideas that extend existing project for OCaml's GSoC. The point is that it is more likely that a new project started during GSoC stop being developped right after GSoC, whereas an already existing project has a chance to live further... Cheers, Sylvain Le Gall -- My company: http://www.ocamlcore.com Linkedin: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/sylvainlegall Start an OCaml project here: http://forge.ocamlcore.org OCaml blogs: http://planet.ocamlcore.org