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Author: romainfrancois

proposal.Rmd

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 ## Commitment 
 
-I will take the lead on the project and spend a one day per week on this project (typically Friday). 
+I will take the lead on the project and spend one day per week on this project (typically Friday). 
 
-The time will be used for implementation, testing, documentation and community engagement. 
+The time will be used for design, implementation, testing, documentation and community engagement. 
 
 # Project Milestones
 
 ## First iteration. $25k
 
 This is the main lump of technical work on this project. This is when `ergo` starts to 
-materialise as a development time R package. 
+materialise as a development time R package. I will take the necessary time to 
+produce frequent updates on the progress as blog articles, and engage the 
+community as much as possible to ensure that `ergo` is aligned with the 
+expectations of features and simplicity. 
 
-By design, `ergo` is only needed by package developers. End users of a package that contains
-code generated by `ergo` do not need to have `ergo` installed. 
+Sometimes the development will have to pause so that example use case can 
+be discussed broadly with the community. Go is a simple language, I don't want
+ergo to be complicated to use. 
 
 ## Second iteration. $15k
 
@@ -145,10 +149,14 @@ The community will be encouraged to engage with these repos.
 
 A blogdown/hugo website (`https://go.rbind.io`) is in place
 to host blog posts related to the development, case studies, and documentation. 
+
 In addition, I plan to document the progress from a bird's eye view on the consortium's blog. 
 Depending on the community's need for instant interraction, we can setup 
 a slack team, or a gitter community. 
 
+A more formal scientific article in e.g. R Journal or the Journal of Statistical Software
+will be considered once the project is stable enough.
+
 It is unclear at the time of writing this proposal if `ergo` and the packages 
 containing `ergo` generated code can be hosted on CRAN. Both situations 
 can be considered, but CRAN delivered packages are preferable.