GSOC: Chat Log

Ethan Blanton elb at pidgin.im
Tue Apr 16 09:28:21 EDT 2013


Tomasz Wasilczyk spake unto us the following wisdom:
> 2013/4/16 Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im>:
> > Nathan Loewen spake unto us the following wisdom:
> >> I'm considering applying as a GSOC student to work on the chat log idea
> >> mentioned on your idea page. I noticed that there was a student working on
> >> this during the 2010 GSOC. I was wondering what issues he ran into that
> >> prevented the work from being completed? Did any code come out of that work
> >> that could be used as a starting point?
> >
> > He did nothing.  We don't know what happened, he simply disappeared
> > when the summer started.  I would not take his failure as any
> > indication of the difficulty/complexity/etc. of this project in any
> > way.
> 
> According to [1], he did /something/. He's been learning C, GTK and he
> finished GSoC with a buggy HelloWorld window.

You're right, I confused the 2010 chat log student with the 2012
plugin website student.  My mistake.

Ethan




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