[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Bähr
hi, i just came across this article about google code-in http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/03/parrot-foundation-reflects-on-google.html maybe also something worth trying... greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix services: d

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-14 Thread Bertrand Juglas
There is already in python 3 a converter program that manages automatically some syntax changes like strings and octal formats. But before fully dropping in python 3, python 2.7 understands both the new and old syntax to let time to convert. Maybe i should look in a ruby based package manager like

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-14 Thread Martin Bähr
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:40:30PM -0400, Mihai Ibanescu wrote: > Even if Fedora moves to python 3, conary will probably stay on python > 2 for the foreseeable future, by shipping with its own version of > python. i do not think that even fedora can afford to drop python 2 for the forseeable futu

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-14 Thread Mihai Ibanescu
ot; , "Mark Trompell" , "Og Maciel" Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:27:08 PM Subject: [Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code Hello, 2011/3/12 Martin Bähr : > in addition to gnome we could also try python. > they accept python applications to run u

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-12 Thread Bertrand Juglas
Hello, 2011/3/12 Martin Bähr : > in addition to gnome we could also try python. > they accept python applications to run under the umbrella of the python > software foundation: > http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/now-accepting-applications-for-google.html > http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfC

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-12 Thread Martin Bähr
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:33:36PM +0100, Martin Bähr wrote: > we could just join gnome. > the Gnome Dev Kit is a gnome project. > work on anaconda and packagekit directly benefits the Dev kit. > > it would be enough if we can manage to get the dev kit and anaconda and > packagekit as dev kit pr

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-04 Thread Bertrand Juglas
The idea below is the best one i've read from the complete discussion on this subject :) I hope Og and Jesse will agree with that idea and make it accepted by Gnome GSoC. Until this idea is accepted, do you think there is interest to do a first update to Gnome Dev Kit to make it uses unstable relea

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Martin Bähr
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:49:26AM +0100, Mark Trompell wrote: > Hi all, > I created a page[1] in the wiki to collect some ideas for gsoc 2011, > if we want to apply. > Unfortunatly deadline is next friday, so we have only one week to get > something written down. > Feel free to add ideas, answer t

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Martin Bähr
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:17:41AM +0100, Mark Trompell wrote: > > one thing that is a concern for GSOC is our mentoring capability, and > > our weight in the free software community. > Looking at the past yeaers, I doubt that some organizations in gsoc > had (and still have) any weight either. tr

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Mark Trompell
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Jesse Zhang wrote: > On 03/03/2011 05:15 PM, Mark Trompell wrote: >> What about reviving gnone dev kit? > > Yeah, that can count as one. But it probably doesn't need three months' > work. And not as much programming involved. That is probably true. > jesse -- M

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Jesse Zhang
On 03/03/2011 05:15 PM, Mark Trompell wrote: > What about reviving gnone dev kit? Yeah, that can count as one. But it probably doesn't need three months' work. And not as much programming involved. jesse ___ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Mark Trompell
> one thing that is a concern for GSOC is our mentoring capability, and > our weight in the free software community. Looking at the past yeaers, I doubt that some organizations in gsoc had (and still have) any weight either. -- Mark Trompell Foresight Linux Xfce Edition Cause your desktop shoul

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Mark Trompell
What about reviving gnone dev kit? -- Mark Trompell Foresight Linux Xfce Edition Cause your desktop should be freaking cool (and Xfce) ___ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-de

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Mark Trompell
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Jesse Zhang wrote: > btw, is our anaconda tree available somewhere? All anaconda we have is on hg.rpath.com atm. + what is in fl:2{,-{devel,qa}}. mull has done some basic work on f14 anaconda, but don't know where his code is. > jesse -- Mark Trompell Foresight

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Martin Bähr
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:51:44PM +0800, Jesse Zhang wrote: > packagekit+conary is a good idea too. But given the oncoming change to > conary (system model etc), it may not fit for a three-month work for a > student, esp. if he's not already familiar with conary or packagekit. well, most of the s

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Jesse Zhang
btw, is our anaconda tree available somewhere? jesse ___ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel

[Foresight-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-03 Thread Jesse Zhang
On 03/03/2011 03:49 PM, Mark Trompell wrote: > [1] https://wiki.foresightlinux.org/wiki/display/~mark__t/gsoc+2011 The ideas about anaconda are good. We only need to make sure there is a mentor. packagekit+conary is a good idea too. But given the oncoming change to conary (system model etc), it m