Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union + suggestion for global dev conference (at bottom, if you want to skip)

[Christel Dahlskjaer <christel@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 11:43 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Sunday 30 April 2006 03:55, Lance Albertson wrote:
> >
> > Here's an idea I had tonight. Since we're going to be doing the Google
> > SoC this summer, perhaps a great project would be having someone work
> > on this migration (or at least do an unbiased test implementation). I'd
> > be willing to provide an infra server for testing/development. I don't
> > see much problem at least trying to work out all the details. I don't
> > think infra will go with any change unless there is a clear, detailed
> > migration plan with proper back-out plans also. The tree is the most
> > important part of our distribution and I'm not going to let such a
> > migration go by without proper planning and testing. After the test
> > implementation is done and has been fully tested, perhaps the council
> > could make the final decision if infra is happy with the
> > implementation/migration details.
> 
> I think that is a good idea. It's a perfect google SoC project as it has a 
> clear boundary. Limited prerequisite knowledge is required, and it is 
> something we would really benefit from.
> 
> Paul
> 
> ps. Perhaps the SoC project could include fixing up the migration tools 
> (for example including the hypothesis that all ebuilds for a package 
> descend from eachother) and other coding necessary to make things work 
> perfectly.

Hiya, 

If one of you drop us a line of what you want included on the ideas
page, or pop into #gentoo-soc on irc.freenode.net we'll get it up
there. :)

Keep in mind, student applications close on the 8th of May, so the
sooner the better.

Christel


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