It could be a new feature request. It should be solid enough for a developer to get behind it and offer to mentor the project (GSOC requires this). Have a look at the trello board I linked in the first mail. If you have an idea not already there, propose it on the mailing list and start a discussion in the community.
~kaushal On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Carlos Capriotti <capriotti.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > These projects, do they have to be on-going ideas/features, or could them be > a (solid) feature request ? > > (Yes, the question is very basic, but I am new here. Sorry.) > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:15 PM, John Mark Walker <johnm...@gluster.org> > wrote: >> >> I agree. At one time, Vipul (sp?) approached the list with the desire to >> do something, and I would support adding that under the fedora project >> umbrella, assuming that we have a mentor in place for his project - I've >> forgotten what it was, although I can dig it up in the gluster-user >> archives. >> >> I'd be interested in hearing about other projects that should be added. >> >> -JM >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > On 03/12/2014 06:44 PM, Kaushal M wrote: >> > > We haven't had any noise regarding GSOC this year in the Gluster >> > > community and haven't done anything regarding it so far (AFAIK). >> > > >> > > The student registration for GSOC-2014 is closing on 21st March [1], >> > > so we still have a little over 1 week to do something. >> > > >> > > Ideally, with Gluster progressing from a project to an organization >> > > with multiple projects, we'd have liked to participate as our own >> > > organization this time, but it isn't possible. We can still >> > > participate as a project under the Fedora umbrella, as we've done >> > > previously. >> > > >> > > There are already two entries for GlusterFS in the Fedora ideas page >> > > for GSOC-2014 [2]. These have been copied over from the previous year. >> > > As these were skipped over last year, I feel that these ideas weren't >> > > particularly attractive to the students. >> > > >> > > This mail is a call to the community for new ideas (could be something >> > > from the trello backlog board [3]) and for mentors for these ideas, >> > > and after we have these done a publicity drive. >> > > >> > > Let's try to whatever is possible now to get on the GSOC train this >> > > year. >> > > >> > > ~kaushal >> > > >> > > [1] - https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 >> > > [2] - >> > > >> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2014#Applications_for_programmers >> > > [3] - https://trello.com/b/mczS4DKw/glusterfs-backlog >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Gluster-devel mailing list >> > > Gluster-devel@nongnu.org >> > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> > +1. Also it is a nice/right way to increase mind share among students. >> > Can we also discuss this in today's community meeting? >> > >> > -Lala >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gluster-devel mailing list >> > Gluster-devel@nongnu.org >> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> gluster-us...@gluster.org >> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > gluster-us...@gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel