Re: GSoC projects: lessons learned

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Wilkes
<matthew.wilkes-z4DKO/[email protected]> wrote:

> There are two reasons to do GSoC, code and people. I think we benefit from
> people much more than code.

+1 My participation in a GSoC project in 2009 was a good way to get me
back into participating in the Plone Community after some diversions
elsewhere.  Even though my faceted navigation project [1] never made
it into Plone, participating gave me confidence to more frequently
participate in and contribute to the community in other areas and
contexts.

Sean

[1] I became sort of fatalistic about plone.app.folderui after
realizing its critical flaw was a heavy reliance on
write-on-read-transactions (and reliance on AdvancedQuery).
Eventually, I do think I will re-purpose some of the good ideas from
that project (caching unordered result set intersections for
performance of the facet counts) for use in some other context.

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