From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJvnQ-0000K1-Oq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:07:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75AB9E0392; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9A4E0392 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so220928ugf.49 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:06:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rM99se0daibnFJ/odehGzPcj2TKpaoudevKJ3g3wpaw=; b=EqaxyKvl6MAjFG/wv1GEdLKpBbfGpK3iyPqvBJ/u9ejxnoXoSizfAz47GwWVubvf/tkZQfNpfUwI2TJ3dn+DJP1VmXaFNLca/a13yzOi0yiuV5TkKrkCzHdp27z2cTC7jgj1mKRZFfypL0cPwG7A+IQyhysagcAshn5bWT7TeJ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PXn142OgiPnDC6TPJM6ucRuSIvqgB7mHPZdAYpCijQGiHdHcbjLigAK5v2wQYHwhyKsfA9R9iG0VqV/LPspLZct1R+Wdcfjy7UwYA3JCZXRRBfXrAoDKY0FkIZ4iVD9OWy1A2ph0uvuVkRksC1C9W1/LWgucHiqaHJ3xu1LFDfk= Received: by 10.78.149.15 with SMTP id w15mr10068427hud.72.1201633617075; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.36? ( [81.79.219.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm16967440nfv.32.2008.01.29.11.06.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:06:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <479F794A.3060302@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:06:50 +0000 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code References: <20080129151217.GQ10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> In-Reply-To: <20080129151217.GQ10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ff3082f5-dbda-40eb-a999-3606bfada7fb X-Archives-Hash: a9b901fc6cb43a8f835d877251e678a2 Grant Goodyear wrote: > Google has been hinting not-so-subtlely that there's going to be > a 2008 Google Summer of Code. I expect that if we want to participate, > we're going to have to have our ducks in a row by March, if not > earlier. > > So, does Gentoo want to participate this year? > > If so, who's going to run it? Who's going to help? What are > we going to do differently this year? > > I'll help if it's something people want to do, but I'd like to see > some serious changes this year. I'd like us to only accept proposals > that we actually think are quite good. In the past we've been told that we > have N slots to fill, so we choose the best N proposals, despite the > fact that we often only get a handful of exceptional proposals. I'd > also like to see us require weekly public status reports from our > students. Quick show of hands: how many people know how what any > of our students accomplished last year? I doubt there are many, > despite the fact that some good work was done last year. > > Thoughts? Comments? > > -g2boojum- How does the SoC work within Gentoo? Do the developers suggest things they want worked on or do the users suggest things, the developers okay it and then they get worked on or what? George -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list