I agree that a cross-database JSONField probably wouldn't take 3 months to implement -- but it would be up to the student to write a proposal and timeline that demonstrates there's 12 weeks of work. Students are supposed to be working full time.
GSoC requires writing code so an acceptable project can't be exclusively documentation. The problem is that we need students to contribute to Django beforehand so we have some assurance they do good work. Also, students need significant familiarity with Django to write their proposal. It's unlikely a student can do all this in the next 3 weeks (alongside a normal course load). On Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 6:22:02 AM UTC-5, Carlton Gibson wrote: > > Hi all. > > We were accepted as an Org to GSoC, so we can accept applications from the > end of the month. > > I've updated the Wiki page... > > https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2019 > > ... but *if you have project ideas *it would be good if you could add > them! > > > I keep hearing, "Django's Mature", "There are no suitable projects" but I > look at the >1300 accepted tickets and, well... I just don't believe that > really. 🙂 > > Taking Aymeric's advice, I broke down the accepted tickets by component: > > > [image: Django-Accepted-tickets-by-component.png] > > > The top 4 there are: > > > * ORM > > * Admin > > * Documentation > > * Migrations. > > > For the *ORM*, I think the cross-DB JSONField would be a great project. > Florian worried it was too small in scope, but if it existed by the end of > the summer, I would call that a success. > > > ORM experts: what else though? (Anything?) > > > For the *Admin*, there are a whole load of "filters" tickets. (Including > the search issue from the thread here the other day). I've added working on > that as an idea. But anything else? > > > > - What we could really do with is someone becoming an expert in a > component and taking on a bunch of issues — Would that count as an > acceptable project? > - Could we do that for *Documentation*? (Would require strong written > English. Focus on Clarity. But...) > > > Other ideas around the *docker-box* project and *CI*? Could we take input > there? > Translations tooling and flow? > And so on...? > > Last chance to speak up. 🙂 > > I'm hopeful we can get a decent application (or a few…) Let's see. > > Thanks. > > Kind Regards, > > Carlton > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/6b9c2356-1878-4e45-9026-2a9ac6b9f193%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
