Google Summer of Code Project Breakdown

behdad writes "Google's Summer of Code final per-organization project breakdown is out. The Apache Software Foundation is on the top of the list with 38 projects allocated out of total 410 slots, followed by KDE, FreeBSD, and 38 other mentoring organizations. The accepted applications will be posted early next week. More than 8700 applications have been submitted. Thanks Greg Stein and Chris DiBona for the hard work."

Comments

Re:"Breakdown"

[michalf]

of course. about 5500 people that were rejected ;-)
it was a sort of lottery. imho if you had an independent project not following the ideas posted earlier by the mentoring organizations - your chances were low - judgin on some discussions after acceptance/rejection of proposals.

mine got rejected ;-)

michal

Re:gnome?

[pantherace]

The reason for this is not Gnome being up to snuff, but that distros will customize Gnome. Gentoo relies on what the project itself provides, and Gnome doesn't provide things very well out of the box. Thus Gnome on Gentoo requires a lot of user-tweaking. KDE provides a much more higher baseline, thus, distros don't need to do as much customization. (Additionally, while Gnome seems to require tailoring, Red Hat's (relatively minor, once actually looked at) changes to KDE created a large outcry.)

So, basically it boils down to KDE being a more centralized, and consistant base, with usually a few custom (config) apps added in. However, Gnome isn't, so there's a lot more parallel effort to get it to the state KDE is in. (You've got to pull in a IM client, media player and lots of other apps which are part of KDE's base (meaning by that the common packages (kdegames, kdepim, kdemultimedia, etc), not just 'kdebase').

I happen to feel that KDE's way is better, but that's my personal opinion.