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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> I am not a developer yet, but I would like to suggest some idea possibilities: |
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> Minix port of Gentoo |
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> Illumos port of Gentoo |
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> LLVM/Clang System Compiler Support |
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> ICC System Compiler Support (probably easier than LLVM/Clang) |
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> Port of Gentoo/FreeBSD to amd64 (or other architectures) |
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> Gentoo/FreeBSD KVM port (we don't have to let upstream have all of the fun) |
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> Gentoo Prefix --as-needed support on one or more architectures that |
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> currently lack it |
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> Gentoo Prefix Cygwin support |
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> Gentoo Prefix Minix support |
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I'm a little wary of 'ports' as I am unsure myself how much actual |
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software writing is required. |
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> I might be too inexperienced to serve as a mentor this summer, |
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> provided that the recruitment process finishes in time. I would |
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> appreciate it if anyone interested in being a mentor for any of these |
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> ideas adopted them. |
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You don't need to be a Gentoo Developer to be a mentor. |
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> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:38:47PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>>> <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas>. If you |
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>>> have project ideas, this is the place to put them. It's critical to also |
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>>> include potential mentors and prerequisite skills so students know which |
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>>> ideas make sense and where to learn more about them. |
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>> For any devs with ideas from the previous years that didn't get chosen, |
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>> the old page is here: |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml |
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>> I'm not going to be putting my Upstart idea forward again, due to lack |
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>> of time, and I don't think it's quite suited. Somebody else might want |
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>> to look at the potential of porting OpenRC's oldnet into systemd |
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>> however... |
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>> -- |
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>> Robin Hugh Johnson |
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>> Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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>> E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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>> GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 |
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