Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-19 Thread Alec Warner
> On Friday 16 February 2007 19:38, Grant Goodyear wrote: >> Rémi Cardona wrote: [Fri Feb 16 2007, 12:14:31PM CST] >> >> > To complement the both of you, how about proposing projects to 2 >> > students at the same time and have them work as a team? >> >> It's against the rules to have two students

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 16 February 2007 19:38, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Rémi Cardona wrote: [Fri Feb 16 2007, 12:14:31PM CST] > > > To complement the both of you, how about proposing projects to 2 > > students at the same time and have them work as a team? > > It's against the rules to have two students working

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-19 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:35 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 16 February 2007, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > So, is there support among devs for hosting another round of Summer > > students? Are there good problems for those students to work on, and, > > if so, what are they? Were

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-19 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 19:14 +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Luca Barbato wrote: > > ffmpeg got just vc-1 working as should, all the other code got somewhat > > halfway, mostly because we expected a lot. (amr and ac3 seems to have > > something alive, aac isn't something that good) > > > > The Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:19:04PM +, Dimitry Bradt wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > > Maybe we should restrict people we approve to work on projects to > > existing Gentoo developers or to people with a history of contributions > > to bugzilla or overlays. This would at least increase the change

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * devmanual. Not converting it over to a new shiny XML thing or > whatever, but just extending and reworking the parts that need it. Last year's SoC FAQ said that the actual work would have to be coding, not writing documentation. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Dimitry Bradt
Petteri Räty wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: > >> Saying that, the project is almost complete - the only reason it never >> hit portage was the it destroyed config parts that it did not know >> about. After SOC finished, my student has been mute to my emails :/ >> >> Thanks >> >> Roy >> > > May

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Roy Marples wrote: > > Saying that, the project is almost complete - the only reason it never > hit portage was the it destroyed config parts that it did not know > about. After SOC finished, my student has been mute to my emails :/ > > Thanks > > Roy Maybe we should restrict people we approve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:35:51 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I have no clue what's going on with gentoo-stats; See http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/genone?cat=201 -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Roy Marples
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:27:03 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Nothing that's a brand new project. Building upon existing code is > fine (heck, even things like eselect modules), but from-scratch "build > a framework and use it" type projects should be out. baselayout-gui was su

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 17 February 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > So perhaps next time around mentors should accept concrete proposals > that are really doable, rather than stuff that just seems shiny. Gentoo > *could* benefit greatly from SoC, if things are done properly. Apocalypse day may come soon this y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:52:00 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | How much good did Google Summer of Code to the Gentoo _community_ ? | How much the project were of use for the Gentoo (Linux) project? Perhaps it should serve as a lesson when selecting next year's projects

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Samstag, 17. Februar 2007 00:52 schrieb Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò: > On Saturday 17 February 2007, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > a) It's _qualudis_ ;-) > > Whatever, can we get back on track? > > How much good did Google Summer of Code to the Gentoo _community_ ? > How much the project were of use fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 17 February 2007, Danny van Dyk wrote: > a) It's _qualudis_ ;-) Whatever, can we get back on track? How much good did Google Summer of Code to the Gentoo _community_ ? How much the project were of use for the Gentoo (Linux) project? [1] http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html -- D

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2007 17:35 schrieb Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò: > On Friday 16 February 2007, Grant Goodyear wrote: > - I don't know what happened to q[u]aludis, nor I care to be honest as > it's an external project; For the sake of completeness and correctness: a) It's _qualudis_ ;-) b) D

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
Rémi Cardona wrote: [Fri Feb 16 2007, 12:14:31PM CST] > To complement the both of you, how about proposing projects to 2 > students at the same time and have them work as a team? It's against the rules to have two students working on exactly the same project, or at least it was last year. -g2booj

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Luca Barbato
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Luca Barbato wrote: >> ffmpeg got just vc-1 working as should, all the other code got somewhat >> halfway, mostly because we expected a lot. (amr and ac3 seems to have >> something alive, aac isn't something that good) >> >> The Gentoo results aren't that bad on the average, w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Rémi Cardona
Luca Barbato wrote: > ffmpeg got just vc-1 working as should, all the other code got somewhat > halfway, mostly because we expected a lot. (amr and ac3 seems to have > something alive, aac isn't something that good) > > The Gentoo results aren't that bad on the average, we got something, > sadly n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Luca Barbato
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: [report with some disappointing results more or less] I partecipated as both ffmpeg and gentoo so I have another view on the issue. The project I proposed sadly went nowhere and probably IF I'd start mentoring again I'd be quite more strict. ffmpeg got just vc-1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 February 2007, Grant Goodyear wrote: > So, is there support among devs for hosting another round of Summer > students?  Are there good problems for those students to work on, and, > if so, what are they?  Were people happy with how last year's program > went, or should we try to do som

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
Alexander Færøy wrote: [Fri Feb 16 2007, 04:49:24AM CST] > Christel and I were discussing it on IRC today, and she would take care > of the paperwork. We are going to have a short meeting in user relations > tomorrow evening where it is on the agenda too :) Thanks. I'd also like to get input from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Alexander Færøy
Hi, Christel and I were discussing it on IRC today, and she would take care of the paperwork. We are going to have a short meeting in user relations tomorrow evening where it is on the agenda too :) Regards, Alex -- Alexander Færøy Bugday Lead Alpha/IA64/MIPS Architecture Teams User Relations,

[gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-15 Thread Grant Goodyear
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/02/speaking-of-summer.html So, are we going to want to participate again this year? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76