On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 11:43 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 03:55, Lance Albertson wrote: > > > > Here's an idea I had tonight. Since we're going to be doing the Google > > SoC this summer, perhaps a great project would be having someone work > > on this migration (or at least do an unbiased test implementation). I'd > > be willing to provide an infra server for testing/development. I don't > > see much problem at least trying to work out all the details. I don't > > think infra will go with any change unless there is a clear, detailed > > migration plan with proper back-out plans also. The tree is the most > > important part of our distribution and I'm not going to let such a > > migration go by without proper planning and testing. After the test > > implementation is done and has been fully tested, perhaps the council > > could make the final decision if infra is happy with the > > implementation/migration details. > > I think that is a good idea. It's a perfect google SoC project as it has a > clear boundary. Limited prerequisite knowledge is required, and it is > something we would really benefit from. > > Paul > > ps. Perhaps the SoC project could include fixing up the migration tools > (for example including the hypothesis that all ebuilds for a package > descend from eachother) and other coding necessary to make things work > perfectly.
Hiya, If one of you drop us a line of what you want included on the ideas page, or pop into #gentoo-soc on irc.freenode.net we'll get it up there. :) Keep in mind, student applications close on the 8th of May, so the sooner the better. Christel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
