Re: [Gretl-devel] GSoC Results
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Talha Yalta wrote:
No, the mesage was generic:
> Thank you for submitting "Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and
> Time-series Library)" organization application to Google Summer of Code
> 2009. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept your organization's
> application at this time. We received many more applications for the program
> than we are able to accommodate, and we would encourage you to reapply for
> future instances of the program.
Well, of course this is not good news. But on the other hand, I have the
feeling that we, as the gretl community, may not be ready yet for
something like the GSoC. Development has always been mainly on Allin's
shoulders, and lately I haven't been able to provide even the little
help I gave in the past.
Andreas' work on building gretl on a Win32 system is of enormous
importance, since it removes a huge block towards enlarging the pool of C
coders. I'll feel much more confident in applying for the GSoC when we
have a solid base of at least 4/5 stable contributors.
I don't mean to be negative. Talha spent quite a lot of energy and
dedication on this, and I am deeply thankful to him. All I'm saying is,
everybody in the community is doing a very fine job (with the testing, the
bug reports, the translations etcetera), but perhaps we still have some
way to go.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti