From owner-soc-status@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Jun 19 09:36:02 2012
Return-Path: <owner-soc-status@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: soc-status@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E494B106564A;
	Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:36:02 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org)
Received: from server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [87.229.73.95])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946428FC17;
	Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:35:59 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from server.mypc.hu (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F02D14E79F9;
	Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:35:53 +0200 (CEST)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at server.mypc.hu
Received: from server.mypc.hu ([127.0.0.1])
	by server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
	with LMTP id taN-bvzb4cXt; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:35:51 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from [192.168.1.117] (catv-80-98-232-12.catv.broadband.hu
	[80.98.232.12])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(No client certificate requested)
	by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 649E114E7979;
	Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:35:50 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <4FE047EB.7060409@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:35:39 +0200
From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
	rv:14.0) Gecko/20120604 Thunderbird/14.0a2
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Jesse Hagewood <jhagewood@FreeBSD.org>
References: <CACfFK-WS6_+_8roEUdqWf64tLaPaEXExw9MLXzfVpWZfOiWAiQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACfFK-WS6_+_8roEUdqWf64tLaPaEXExw9MLXzfVpWZfOiWAiQ@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, soc-status@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Improve BSD licensed text processing tools
X-BeenThere: soc-status@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Summer of Code Status Reports and Discussion <soc-status.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-status>,
	<mailto:soc-status-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/soc-status>
List-Post: <mailto:soc-status@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:soc-status-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-status>,
	<mailto:soc-status-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:36:03 -0000

On 2012.06.18. 18:58, Jesse Hagewood wrote:
> As for mdocml, I still plan to work on the implementing the macros I have
> already started working on as a secondary focus during the summer. I will
> probably spend a few hours during the weekends trying to complete what I
> started while I work on the diff utilities during the week.
I think it would be better to keep mdocml as a primary focus until the 
most necessary features are completed. You have done some research, 
which is of course valuable but if someone else tries to work on mdocml, 
she still needs to dig into the subject before completing these items so 
your time spent on this actually contributes very few. If you do a bit 
of each objective of your project, none will actually be finished and 
your work will not serve for too much. I believe mdocml is in fact more 
difficult than these less important diff options but having mdocml 
completed would weigh much more than having touched everything a bit.

Gabor