Silvan Troxler a écrit :
Hello everyone
Michael Keck and I were discussing about templates in PMA. We both would like to convert phpMyAdmin to use a template system. We did not make a decision yet on using Twig or Dwoo but are discussing that. I would like to contribute as a GSoC student for this transition. The problem is, that there is too much work to do for 12 weeks. That's why Michael and I were thinking about partitioning the tasks in order to be able to finish it faster. It would not be a real cooperation as we would define who is responsible for what section of PMA.
I'm not sure whether Michael can or wants to be a mentor himself or it would help for the project to be done.
What do you think about that?
Regards Silvan
Silvan, Here is my personal opinion. In your proposal you have to define the scope of the project, and you are evaluated at mid-term and at the end of the project on your individual accomplishments. You can ask help from others (even "sub-contract" parts of the project) without the mentors or Google knowing (this has been discussed on the Google mentors list). However you are still responsible for the whole project.
So, if Michael Keck wants to help you, this is fine, but in this case I don't believe it would be appropriate that he acts as your mentor, as the mentor has to remain objective in his evaluation and he would be evaluating some code he has written.
Another possibility is to reduce the scope of this project in order to fit one person x twelve weeks.