[gentoo-dev] Re: Why aren't GSoC projects affecting ::gentoo discussed on regular mls?

[Benda Xu]

Hi Marek,



Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o> writes:



> On 2019-06-27 04:16, Benda Xu wrote:
>
>> Michał, you were overreacting to the word "GSoC" since our original RFC
>> at gentoo-dev.  Please, just ignore GSoC when you are executing your
>> experise of QA.  Gentoo should be developed independently, regardless of
>> whether any development effort is supported by 3rd party.
> [...]
>> Personally I don't regard the GSoC selection and decision process
>> interesting to all the Gentoo devs.
>
> In my opinion Michał has got a very good point regarding potential PR
> consequences of us rejecting GSoC work.


I agree with you.



> Of course it can be done, I've seen my share of student projects of
> various sort getting binned immediately after implementation - but
> more often than not it shows a lack of of foresight, at best, on
> behalf of institutions which requested manpower for such projects.


Agreed, too.  It is the mentor's duty to facilitate a win-win outcome to

our student, Gentoo and Google, by being more careful on visions and

planning.



> Yes, it is good for you to have eventually brought this to -dev - but
> IMHO it really is too late. In the future, I would STRONGLY advise
> having a general discussion before having even a single line of code
> written.


In retrospect, I was overconfident about my technical judgement.  I will

take your advice.  Thank you, Marek.



Yours,

Benda