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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I can mostly only expand upon what I
said in my previous email: I feel it is not a good target because
there are already other folks working on the engine, and there are
many other really helpful open tasks which have no contributors at
all which could be done instead. Working on AGS would present
additional logistical challenges in an already complicated and
time-sensitive process, by requiring that the work be coordinated
with an extra third party. Given the challenges already discussed
in this thread regarding lack of time and amount of effort needed
just to fulfil the basic requirements of the GSoC programme, it
seems unnecessary to introduce these additional levels of
uncertainty and work into the process. It would also seem to me
that the other people working on AGS should be talked to to even
see how they would feel about potentially working with a GSoC
student, as they may not want to do this. Is this clear and makes
sense? If it still seems like a good target, could you share your
plans on how these extra challenges would be managed?<br>
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There are several other in-progress engines, many of which you
have already worked on or even presented as GSoC ideas in the past
(several of which are actually on the GSoC Ideas 2018 page now,
which is great), which would be lower-risk targets and which would
not result in the extra energy needed to coordinate efforts with a
third party. There are, of course, the various TODOs on
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/TODO">http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/TODO</a>, as well as past ideas in
the GSoC Ideas history,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas&oldid=21589">http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas&oldid=21589</a>,
etc. to pick from. I think there are so many great ideas here
already that I don’t feel like I need to add any new ones to the
mix.<br>
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On 2018-01-17 01:27, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 17 January 2018 at 02:36, Colin
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Strangerke mentioned, there is currently at least one
person already working on the AGS engine in ScummVM,<span
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style="font-size:12.8px">so it doesn’t seem like a
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<div>Many engines are developed by more than one person. Why
it is a bad target for GSoC?</div>
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and there are surely a lot of other things to do which
nobody is working on.<br>
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<div>I welcome you to describe these ideas on the following
page and preferably offer yourself as a potential mentor
for them.</div>
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