[Sugar-devel] GSoC'16 Guidance

[James Cameron]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 09:08:23AM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote:
> El 13/03/16 a las 08:52, Akshit Kumar escibió:
> > 2. Redesign and Recreate of Sugar Web Appearance
> 
> > 2. Redesign and recreate of Sugar Web Appearance - Ported the present
> > sugar labs website to a flat minimalistic bootstrap theme - Flatly.
> > You can find the code for it here [1].
> 
> Hi Sugar Labs, Akshit,
> 
> While I commend Akshit for following the GSoC idea, I think it's a
> really bad idea to put the website under GSoC. I think this is not the
> first time this idea has been put forward, with prototype and all, and
> so far there's been no change.
> 
> The challenge is editorial / aesthethic / strategic - coding is the easy
> bit. I don't think it's a good match for GSoC - Mentors please chip
> in.

I'm not a mentor, but I agree; the web publishing process tasks in the
past couple of years are a kind of thrashing, and they don't appear to
be solving any problems.

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James Cameron
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