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