On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Tomas Bodzar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Loganaden Velvindron > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I came across this: >> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleOpenSourceBlog+%28Google+Open+Source+Blog%29 >> >> The deadline is the 29th. >> >> I'd be interested in accelerating the port of capsicum :-) > > Check archives like > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=Google+Summer+of+code&q=b , > OpenBSD tried to apply at least two times or so, but was not chosen. > > The question is if there's real potential in that for some really new > stuff. Personally I think that developers which hacks in their free > time work on needed features anyway even without GSoC and probably > don't have free summer because of that and regular job (but probably > money from GSoC may be of some use for them as for anyone). Then > there's quality - OpenBSD model proved during years that really only > skilled people (or those which want to be skilled) are getting inside > dev team and we can use high quality results of that. Seems like > OpenBSD has much more higher standards for quality of code, > documentation and skills of programmers then GSoC can offer most of > the times. > > Examples of outputs related to BSD are eg. here: > > http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/posix_spawn_syscall_added > http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2011/09/15/8368.html > > but when testing those you can see that they are mostly not so stable > as OpenBSD wants. Here something gets implemented when it's really > ready and stable as much as possible. This doesn't seems to be same > for GSoC results. Style is something like > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often > >> >> //Logan >> C-x-C-c >> -- >> Brightest day, >> Blackest night, >> No bug shall escape my sight, >> And those who worship evil's mind, >> be wary of my powers, >> puffy lantern's light ! >>
Ok, instead of at least trying something, we're not going to do anything, Why ? because, the intermediate results is crap. -- Brightest day, Blackest night, No bug shall escape my sight, And those who worship evil's mind, be wary of my powers, puffy lantern's light !
