Re: Mentors needed for GSoC suggestions

[Paul Morris]

> On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:20 AM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Section 2.5 of the Mentoring Organization agreement specifies that projects 
> cannot be documentation.
> 
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/org_admin_agreement
> 
> So it seems to me that unless we turn this project into a 
> texi2html-to-texi2any translator, it is out of scope.

You’re probably right.  Looks like that’s section 2.3:

2.3            Projects. Mentoring Organization will not list or accept 
projects for documentation. Projects must be for writing open source software.


Also their FAQ:

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.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#12._Are_proposals_for_documentation_work


However, one reading of this is that projects cannot be for _writing_ 
documentation, whereas writing code that’s involved in producing documentation 
would qualify since it is still "developing code” and “writing ... software."

I don’t know how much the transition to texi2any would involve writing code...

IIUC, there were a number of changes to LilyPond's texi2html that were 
candidates for upstream contributions to texi2html, or now I guess texi2any.  
So there might be some coding work there. (Maybe as a texi2any project rather 
than LilyPond?) (...but that’s still not tackling an open problem and writing 
new code from scratch, but just upstreaming existing code.)

So probably not the best fit for LilyPond GSOC.  It nevertheless might be good 
to have it listed as a project on that page or somewhere…  do we have a way to 
raise the profile of these kinds of projects?  Relevant trackers:

http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1557/

http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1000/

-Paul