idea for gsoc

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi,

2014-03-20 13:26 GMT+01:00 Pramiti Goel:
> Hi,
> I am working on my idea implementation and learning baloo. I have started
> working with kde 4 days back  and  I have recently build kde environment. I
> believe that i can implement my idea but seeing the gosc deadline, i cant
> submit my proposal by mentioning how I can implement through baloo.  I need
> atleast week time to implement in best way and to decide required
> technologies. What should i do regarding the proposal and deadline?

maybe the first step should be to find someone who is able and willing
to act as a mentor for the project that you have in mind (I do not
have the ressources to mentor a GSoC student at the moment).

Considering that it's still somewhat unclear to me what exactly you
are trying to implement that is not already there, and how exactly the
implementation would work, I'm afraid I cannot say much more. Todd and
I have raised some questions in this thread, which any possible mentor
might want to see answered as well.

Some information for future GSoC students is available at

https://community.kde.org/GSoC

in particular in the section "Student proposal guidelines". Note the
question "To what extent are you familiar with the software you're
proposing to work with? Have you used it? Have you read the source?
Have you modified the source?" - I think it is not uncommon that
mentors expect that the student has a basic understanding of the
source code and has proven it, e.g., by fixing a couple of bugs.

Regards,
Frank