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Re: GSOC project


From: Alex Hornung <ahornung@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:53:08 +0000

Replying to both John and Justin,

On 21/03/12 14:10, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:22 AM, John Marino <dragonflybsd@marino.st> wrote:
>> It is debatable if the last two projects should be on the GSOC page. For
>> one, they've been in place for years.  More importantly, profmakx has been
>> working on the USB stack project already.  I thought he had made significant
>> progress and thus this project should have been removed.

I don't think that just because a project has been in place for several
years it is any less valuable/worse/etc than new projects.

> The primary goal of Summer of Code is to get a student learning as
> part of a group.  If a project's already started by a nonstudent, it's
> fine to work on; it will still benefit the student even if different
> code gets committed.
> 
> In any case, you can edit the page to remove or modify or add projects
> as you see fit.

Actually I think removing projects isn't a great idea unless there is
some consensus. However, feel free to add more projects.

Cheers,
Alex



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