On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <logana...@gmail.com> wrote: > I came across this: > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleOpenSourceBlog+%28Google+Open+Source+Blog%29 > > The deadline is the 29th. > > I'd be interested in accelerating the port of capsicum :-)
Check archives like http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=Google+Summer+of+code&q=b , OpenBSD tried to apply at least two times or so, but was not chosen. The question is if there's real potential in that for some really new stuff. Personally I think that developers which hacks in their free time work on needed features anyway even without GSoC and probably don't have free summer because of that and regular job (but probably money from GSoC may be of some use for them as for anyone). Then there's quality - OpenBSD model proved during years that really only skilled people (or those which want to be skilled) are getting inside dev team and we can use high quality results of that. Seems like OpenBSD has much more higher standards for quality of code, documentation and skills of programmers then GSoC can offer most of the times. Examples of outputs related to BSD are eg. here: http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/posix_spawn_syscall_added http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2011/09/15/8368.html but when testing those you can see that they are mostly not so stable as OpenBSD wants. Here something gets implemented when it's really ready and stable as much as possible. This doesn't seems to be same for GSoC results. Style is something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often > > //Logan > C-x-C-c > -- > Brightest day, > Blackest night, > No bug shall escape my sight, > And those who worship evil's mind, > be wary of my powers, > puffy lantern's light !
