On 11/03/13 at 20:07 +0300, Moray Allan wrote: > On 2013-03-11 19:44, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >I see. Interesting. But in > >https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2013/03/msg00012.html, the > >"no > >packaging work" rule seems to come from the Debian GSoC team, and at > >least Sylvestre seems open to modifying it.
(Oops, I missed the fact that Sylvestre is not an admin of Debian's GSoC for the 2013 edition.) > It "comes from" from how they have understood the GSoC rules -- I > would suggest you read the GSoC pages, e.g. start from > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page > that I mentioned before. Besides the explicit rules, see e.g. the > timeline in > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page#2._What_is_the_program_timeline > which is clearly designed around regular coding projects. > > Or see e.g. > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page#12._Are_proposals_for_documentation_work > which definitively rules out documentation projects. We can try to second-guess Google's motivations for excluding documentation to determine if it also applies to packaging, or we can just ask, which I have done: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/google-summer-of-code-discuss/X9UmGnR6cZI We will see :) Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130311191417.ga23...@xanadu.blop.info
