Need suggestion to choose a GSoC idea

[Qian Hong]

Hi Holy,

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:38 PM, HolyCause <holy.cause at gmail.com> wrote:
> I already asked Austin about that for my GSoC proposal:
>
>> in short, I think this effort is best spent somewhere else. GUI
>> testing is really hard to get right, and very expensive(time, effort,
>> disk space, cpu power, etc.).
>
>

Thanks for reminder, I agree GUI testing is expensive, but I think manpower
is more expensive :) However I've no idea how hard is it to get GUI testing
right yet, maybe you are right, but from my view it is worth to try.

> I've since decided against GSoC for this year, but my idea revolved around
> improving cmd's parser, notably getting Firefox/Chromium and/or other
> software to build under wine (or at least, isolate potential/existing issues
> to non-cmd parts). I was partway through fixing
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21174
>
> Dan Kegel seemed pretty interested in the project. If you're interested you
> could e-mail him.

Thanks, if this idea is not suitable for GSoC, I'll push it in my todo
list. I'll
contact to Dan and Austin once I'm going to do this.

Thank you for your suggestion and good luck to your GSoC project!

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Qian Hong

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