Re: Summer of Code 2009

[Will Farrington]

On Jan 17, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Nick Roberts wrote:

> > As a student who participated in GSoC last year, I'd be thrilled to  
> > do
> > work on Emacs.
> >
> > Personally, as far as more-accomplishable tasks go, I'd recommend
> > having a couple geared towards bringing various ports (namely the
> > Cocoa one) up to feature parity with the others (namely the Gtk one).
> > These would go a long way towards improving Emacs while being simple
> > enough to work on to be accomplished within the 12-week limit.
>
> It might be acheivable but I doubt GNU would agree to a student from
> their allocated number working on a port of Emacs to a proprietary  
> platform.

Eliminating bugs from Emacs is *always* a good thing, even for  
proprietary platforms. I think discouraging people from trying to  
improve Emacs based upon the platform they use sends the wrong message.

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