Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 10:54 schrieb Eric Kow:
The first is to work towards a sort of graphical interface for darcs (as has been suggested on this list). I suspect that we what we will likely do with this idea is to refine it into something that may either be part of a GUI (like a patch dependency viewer), or which will make it much easier for third parties to write a GUI in the future.
What do you mean with “something which will make it much easier for third parties to write a GUI in the future”?
I'll note that last year, we had a few interested students for this year and a potential mentor (Shelarcy from wxHaskell). Hopefully we can call on them again this year? There is also some work by Wolgang Jeltsch
Wol*f*gang, please. :-)
and students that we could talk about extending into a GSoC project.
I would really like if patch viewer and GUI GSoC plans would be coordinated with me. There will probably some students that will start working on a darcs GUI next week. In addition there might be other students working on a patch viewer in spring or summer.
We are also keeping a summary of this discussion here with our active ideas:
How can I get write access for this page? I’ve put myself as a potential mentor on the old Haskell SoC ticket (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17). However, one or two years ago I was told that mentoring is a very time-consuming thing (and to my knowledge, you don’t get any payments for that, at least for Haskell projects). So if some other person wants to mentor a Grapefruit-based GUI or patch viewer project, I’d be very happy and would support this person the best I can. Best wishes, Wolfgang