[Cython] About Soc

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Apr 21, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Fabrizio Milo aka misto wrote:
> Well,
>
> the soc projects have been decided. Unfortunately my proposal was  
> rejected.
> Seems to me that many of the approved projects have an immediate
> effect and not a long-term scope.
> In my opinion these are signs that something in the soc process should
> be changed ...
>
> It is clear that I am a bit disappointed :)

Yep, I'm disappointed too. There were a lot of positive comments on  
your project, but what it boiled down to in the end was that the PSF  
had 66 projects with mentors, only got 32 slots, and every sub- 
organization ended up sharing the short end of the stick (most  
projects only got one, and of those few that got two usually it was  
because they had a dozen application proposals (and so percentage- 
wise it was a lot lower). Personally, I think Cython will have a  
bigger impact on the Python community than most of the funded  
projects, but I can't pretend I'm not biased :) But one really can't  
complain about being given free money, and the PSF coordinator did a  
lot of work and tried to make things as fair as possible, so hats off  
to him too.

> Regarding me, now I am not sure if I will be able to work on  
> cython's AST.
> As you all know, it is not a simple task, (and maybe this is the main
> motivation under his rejection) and it requires a full focus on it.
> Doing something time to time will not work, and if I find a job for
> this summer I cannot work on it full time.

I completely understand if you can't work on it full time without  
funding, though you've had a lot of good ideas so I hope that you  
will still stick around.

> Congrats to winners :D
>
> Have fun

Thanks.

- Robert