GSoC Proposal

[KARAN SHETH]

Hey,

Just a gentle reminder, If I could get a reply to my previous mail as
the deadline for submission is now less than a day and I would like to
submit the proposal well before the deadline.
Sorry for remailing.

Thanks,
Karan Sheth

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:05 AM KARAN SHETH <karan.sheth at somaiya.edu> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> > There's nothing specific that I would want to comment on.
> > Well, to me it's not entirely clear how the automatic updates would be
> > supposed to work, but ...
>
> I made some changes to the update part, is it better now or am I still
> missing something?
>
> > And the stretch goals are somewhat short :)
>
> Ya I am aware of this and am waiting for some good idea to put in there.
> Should I add PortGroup for NPM as stretch goal?
>
> > The only thing (mentioned yesterday) is that you either try to support
> > Haskell, or you don't even try. If we want to try (and spend the exact
> > same amount of time as you initially planned), then it makes sense to
> > spend a bit of time earlier than in week 11. If you only start
> > exploring the options in week 11, I would say that it's nearly
> > guaranteed that you would run out of time while potentially waiting
> > for someone else to do something, or waiting for some good ideas to
> > pop up.
> > If you would want to do Haskell, you would probably need to plant a
> > seed early (not spend more than half a day or a day in any case), let
> > it ripe while working on other important features, and then see if
> > this is feasible / worth finishing or not. I still don't know what the
> > major blocks are, but just because something is not written in json
> > should not be the reason to give up. The format still seems parsable
> > to me (not sure how many complications would arise).
> >
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal2arch
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal2nix
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal2spec
> > https://github.com/ddssff/cabal-debian
> >
> > Please note that I'm not implying that this is of vital importance to
> > the project. A well written support for automatic updates of
> > python/ruby/perl/npm ports would be worth a lot more than a bunch of
> > semi-broken haskell/cabal packages.
>
> I have changed the timeline for Haskell now and the basic structure of
> it starts at week3.
>
> Should I add the PR links somewhere in the proposal ?
>
> Thanks,
> Karan Sheth

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