On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick <<a href="mailto:malcolm@pointy-stick.com" class="linkifierplus">malcolm@pointy-stick.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:55 -0500, Bill Weepie wrote:<br>
> Hello Cairo,<br>
><br>
> I'm a student of Computer Science at Iowa State University. I'm<br>
> interested in helping improve the Cairo wiki and API reference for the<br>
> Summer of Code 2008. A few questions:<br>
><br>
> I notice there are quite a few docbook files in the Cairo source tree.<br>
> Are these references kept current? If so, the best plan to keep the<br>
> API reference current would be transforming these docbook files to<br>
> markdown syntax for the wiki to consume. My proposal would be to<br>
> write an xslt stylesheet and/or parser module for ikiwiki to do this<br>
> transformation. A module like this would directly benefit Cairo, but<br>
> would also be usable by any software project using docbook and ikiwiki<br>
> at once.<br>
><br>
> Is this a reasonable way to tackle this problem, or am I missing<br>
> something important?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Unfortunately, you're missing something important. When applying for any<br>
job (which is what SOC is), reading the application details are<br>
important. In particular,<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_doc_proposals" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_doc_proposals</a> .<br>
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Proposals that predominantly focus on documentation aren't appropriate<br>
for summer of code.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Malcolm<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Ah, my mistake. This project idea was listed on Cairo's SoC ideas page, and I was trying to gauge interest in the project idea before submitting a formal application. I should've read Google's FAQ more carefully.<br>
<br>Sorry to waste your time,<br>Bill<br>