Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Summer of Code 2010

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 03/09/2010 07:36 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >
> > > On 03/09/2010 05:01 PM, Natalia Portillo wrote:
> > > > Documenting QEMU's hardware model may be also a good idea for 
> > > > GSoC2010, as most complains about contributing QEMU are precisely 
> > > > that, having to study the whole code to know how to make anything 
> > > > new.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, documentation-only projects are outside the scope of 
> > > GSoC (though of course it's fine if the project includes a 
> > > documentation step).
> >
> > No, they are not. I personally know mentors (cute ones) for documentation
> > projects.
> 
> http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html
> 
> 12. Are proposals for documentation work eligible for Google Summer of Code?
> 
> While we greatly appreciate the value of documentation, this program is an
> exercise in developing code; we can't accept proposals for documentation-only
> work at this time.

So accompany the project with the task of writing example code.

Why so uncreative?
Dscho