Hi Marek, Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org> writes:
> On 2019-06-27 04:16, Benda Xu wrote: > >> Michał, you were overreacting to the word "GSoC" since our original RFC >> at gentoo-dev. Please, just ignore GSoC when you are executing your >> experise of QA. Gentoo should be developed independently, regardless of >> whether any development effort is supported by 3rd party. > [...] >> Personally I don't regard the GSoC selection and decision process >> interesting to all the Gentoo devs. > > In my opinion Michał has got a very good point regarding potential PR > consequences of us rejecting GSoC work. I agree with you. > Of course it can be done, I've seen my share of student projects of > various sort getting binned immediately after implementation - but > more often than not it shows a lack of of foresight, at best, on > behalf of institutions which requested manpower for such projects. Agreed, too. It is the mentor's duty to facilitate a win-win outcome to our student, Gentoo and Google, by being more careful on visions and planning. > Yes, it is good for you to have eventually brought this to -dev - but > IMHO it really is too late. In the future, I would STRONGLY advise > having a general discussion before having even a single line of code > written. In retrospect, I was overconfident about my technical judgement. I will take your advice. Thank you, Marek. Yours, Benda
