The GNU project participated in Google's Summer of Code programme in 2006. Several good proposals were submitted for findutils in particular.
However, the resources of the programme were limited and the GNU project was able only to accept a small number of projects. Sadly, none of the findutils projects were among this number. This is not a poor reflection on the quality of the applications; indeed a number of them were very promising. However, the GNU Summer of Code mentors ranked all the project proposals as a community, and other proposals were deemed to be of higher priority for the GNU project. In the intervening time, some of the suggestions have already been implemented (for example, locate now supports the slocate file format). The work remaining to implement some of the suggestions is now too small for a viable project (for example, the creation of an slocate database). However, there are some remaining projects which represent a significant amount of work and are suitable for Summer of Code projects in 2007. These ideas (and some ideas for other GNU projects) have been collected at http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html. If you have suggestions for other findutils projects or comments on the existing ideas, please send them to the bug-findutils@gnu.org mailing list. If you have suggestions for other GNU projects, please discuss them with the developer communities for those projects. If you have comments on or questions about the GNU Project's involvement in the Google Summer of Code programme, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
