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 people happy with how last year's program > > went, or should we try to do something different? For what it's worth, > > I think GSOC is worth putting our effort into, but I'd also like to see > > projects that at least have the potential to benefit more of the > > community than just Gentoo. *Shrug* > > Although last summer I wasn't too involved in the process (I was backup > mentor > for a couple of projects, but there was no need for a backup mentor for any > of them, and I also passed the august offline), I did think with myself of a > few issues with what SoC did for Gentoo (and the other way around too). > > Out of the 14 projects listed in [1], these are the (public) results: > > - I don't know of any GUI frontend to baselayout; > - Antarus's work on CVS migration produced some interesting results, but as > we > know, the migration isn't possible just yet; > - blubb's etc-update replacement is sort of complete, I wasn't able to get it > to work yet, but at least blubb is still around; > - Gentoo/FreeBSD/AMD64 port is deadish, Victor disappeared for what I can > tell, there weren't many patches that were followed till merge, and there's > no near hope to get amd64-fbsd working in short time; > - I have no clue what's going on with gentoo-stats; > - Pioto's dynusers (now creandus, I think) is still work in progress, since > starting, pioto became a dev; > - I have no clue what's going on with the web-based GuideXML frontend; > - JACK support hasn't moved a bit, if possible it became worse because of > bitrot, as the student dropped off; > - I have no clue what's going on with NetworkManager, but it might actually > have seen some work on it, considering it's now in portage, but > metalgod/steev would probably know better; > - I don't know what happened to qaludis, nor I care to be honest as it's an > external project; > - I don't know what happened to pkgcore, nor I care to be honest as it's an > external project; > - Alex completed Gentoo/FreeBSD port of Sandbox, although Martin disappeared > and thus we're forced to unmask sandbox on our profiles for now, and in the > mean time he also fixed some FreeBSD bugs; > - I have no clue what's going on with SCIRE; > - I have no clue what's going on with the Xorg configuration too. > > I admit I cannot of course judge all the progress, as you can see I have no > clue on about half the projects, but that also means there wasn't a big new > feature or fix that everybody knows about. > So maybe, the targets we put were too much fuzzy, and difficult to achieve. > Of > course there's also the big unknown of the students, that we can't easily > judge if we don't know them. > > This covers one point, but what most interest me to point out is that we have > a real low conversion of developers. What I found interesting in the Summer > of Code initiative was the ability to find new developers for a project, > people that wouldn't have been involved in open sources projects otherwise. > > We enrolled as "students" four Gentoo developers, and only one of the > remaining ten students was converted into a dev.
Actually, I believe we gained four new developers as a result of Summer of Code last year... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
