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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:08:22 +0200
From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Trace width - best practices?
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Jan Kasprzak <kas AT fi DOT muni DOT cz> schrieb am 24. October 2012:

>  However, I can offer my students
> to do some improvements to gEDA as their semestral project, if you
> (and they!) are interested.  The problem is somebody would have to
> mentor them, and from my experience, the results can be of varying
> quality: there are excellent students, but there are also bad ones,
> who cause only a loss of mentor's time in exchange for an unusable
> result.

IMHO, the choice of the task and communication is critical. Geda
participated in Google summer of code (GSoC) a few years ago. The student
chose the ambitious task building a rather advanced auto-router. He got
the engine working and test cases looked really good. However, at the
end of the GSoC there were still aspects to it, that made the autorouter
impractical for real projects. Unfortunately, the student did not manage
to hand the project over in a way that would have allowed casual
successors to step in and develop it toward real usefulness.


The result was a big block of code that got bit rotten about a year
later by the mil-to-nm conversion.

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