* Mateusz Kowalczyk
Greetings,
GSOC 2014 proposal period opens in ~4 hours and I'm hoping to participate this year as well. This time around I'd quite like to work on Yi. As we did last year, I think it's worthwhile to put up the proposals on café for people to comment on before they are submitted on Google's site.
I paste it in full below so that it is easier to respond to parts of it (although I do ask that you don't quote the whole thing if it's not necessary). In case any changes happen, the most up-to-date version should be at https://gist.github.com/Fuuzetsu/9462709
Please feel free to nitpick on anything, throw in suggestions and ask for clarifications. I will give 5 days of discussion period on this after which point I'll submit it on Google's site. I appreciate all feedback.
From what I've seen, the less uncertainty there is in a GSoC project, the better it works. For example, the situation in your past GSoC project where it was decided in the middle that instead of implementing markdown syntax you're going to do other things is undesirable, IMO. 3 months is a very short time for a research project. (By research I mean not academic research, but finding a way (or the best way) to do something.) And here you're basically saying "there are several ways to do that, we'll figure out what to do as we go". If, on the other hand, it was already decided what the right architecture for concurrency in Yi should be, and it was just a matter of someone doing the work, it would be a good project. Roman