I missed the deadline for applying, but can I still work on one of the projects without mentoring?

[David Narvaez]

On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 2:19 AM Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:

> you should contact the kde-devel at kde.org list to propose your idea and
> see if it is something the developers want or not before starting on it.
> Then, if it is something they want, you can work on it outside GSoC, there
> is no issue with that.
>

 I disagree. And this is where the whole summer program philosophy has
turned the system backwards: Most OS contributors just have an itch they
need to fix and they just contribute a fix. The GSoC model has turned the
tables around where people just want to find something to fix given that
KDE is accepting students. This proposal makes sense to the proposer so
the proposer should be able to implement it and submit a merge request. If
the developers do not like it, that is a plausible outcome. Ultimately, it
is a matter of the KDE community backing up the fix rather than the KDE
community approving for someone to implement the fix.

David E. Narvaez

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