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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:45:49 -0400
From: Dave <snoopdave@gmail.com>
To: dev@roller.apache.org
Subject: Re: Roller Activities proposal for SoC
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Dyagilev Aleksey <aka.fe2s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folk,
>
>  I'm just one of guys who are interested in participating in Google Summer of
>  Code 2008.
>  I've browsed this mailing list and found out that there are already posted
>  proposals in area that I'm interesting in (e.g. adding micro-blog
>  functionality)
>  Now I'm in research state:
>  - getting familiar with code base to make estimation accurately
>  - resolving list of features
>  So, my question is - should I continue this research even the result will be
>  crossed with already existing proposals ?

Yes, I think so. How are your ideas different from the Roller
Activities proposal?


>  A quick note about me:
>  I'm student in CS, more than year experience in commercial projects, two
>  successfully finished open-source projects, and experience with frameworks
>  that Roller is based on (Spring, Struts, JPA(Hibernate))

Excellent. That should give you a good head start on understanding
Roller. However, we only use Spring for security, we're using Struts 2
and we're no longer using Hibernate.

- Dave