[squeak-dev] Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Fri Feb 20 18:39:54 UTC 2009


The code of gwenael is in the Refactoring engine so he delivered, he  
is still working and improving it.
The one of Mathieu is in the newcompiler so he delivered.


On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:09:35 +0100, Aik-Siong Koh wrote:
>>> My experience with the The Squeak Project
>>> GSOC 2008 was excellent and I believe the open source smalltalk  
>>> community
>>> has benefited a lot from his efforts.
>> Benefited, really? To the best of [available] knowledge, someone  
>> took Google's money from 2007 and 2008 and run away. Not _really_ a  
>> benefit for the community.
>
> As far as I know the project Aik-Siong Koh was mentoring is the only  
> one that is currently shipping (in Cobalt). And it is most  
> definitely of great value to its community.
>
> Your question may be worthwhile asking, but Aik-Siong Koh is  
> probably not the person to direct it to. You might want to ask the  
> students who took the money and didn't deliver. Or rather, their  
> mentors. The list of accepted projects and the associated mentors is  
> probably still available somewhere.
>
> BTW, I find this line of questioning completely irrelevant for the  
> position we are talking about which is strictly administrative. Aik- 
> Siong Koh has been a mentor last year, involved in the entire  
> process and short of actually running the process that is as much  
> qualification as anyone can ask for.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>




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