[Soc-coordination] Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

[Aigars Mahinovs]

2009/4/10 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:59:49AM +0200, Andreas Barth <aba at not.so.argh.org> wrote:
>> * Lucas Nussbaum (lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net) [090410 10:30]:
>> > On 10/04/09 at 09:18 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote:
>> > > * Debian Autobuilding Infrastructure Rewrite *
>> > > ----------------------------------------------
>> > > Student: Philipp Kern, Mentor: Luk Claes
>> >
>> > I'm a bit puzzled by this. Philipp has been involved in Debian and a DD
>> > for years. He is already involved in buildd management.
>> >
>> > That proposal totally looks like he will get paid to work on things he
>> > already does in Debian.
>>
>> I'd assume that Phil won't do the rewrite otherwise (which is a real
>> pain).
>
> GSoC is not supposed to be about getting things done, but about getting
> new people involved.

If you read the FAQ, the first goal listed actually is getting things
done and creating new and useful free software code. The other 4 are
about involving new people. I would consider 1-2 DD projects quite
appropriate out of 10-12 projects total.

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    Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:aigarius at debian.org
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