GSoC 2017 Ideas!

[Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 16:20:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 16:12:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> but sorting by rating in search
>
> I'm sorry, that was a run on sentence.
>
> The big picture goal I'd like to see is that the package 
> manager, or even a tutorial author for some topic, just take 
> the choice away.
>
> Sure, you can ignore its recommendation and look down the list, 
> but it would be nice if you didn't have to; if there was one 
> solid way to do what they want that is easy to find. End 
> analysis paralysis.
>
> Like on Amazon, where there's hundreds of options, but there's 
> one with the five stars listed as #1 best seller at the top of 
> the list, it is nice to stop evaluation and just hit buy. It 
> kinda sucks to be the new competitor when the system is 
> promoting the existing #1.... but meh.
>
> You also want to avoid cheating the system and manipulating the 
> results, by either established slumlords or new guys wanting a 
> leg up.
>
>
> If the student can solve the design problem, the implementation 
> might be easy. idk how Google would feel about trivial code 
> with painful design, but that's the way a lot of software work 
> is in the real world sooo I feel it is an applicable project.

I've been trying to find something on this, but haven't yet, but 
I am not sure if website work would be considered appropriate.  I 
know pure documentation is not acceptable, and seem to think the 
websites might fall in the same category - but I am not sure. I 
will keep looking.