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Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> We should not have third-party projects be part of SOC |
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I see 3 important points missing from the discussion so far: |
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(not directed at any response in particular) |
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1. We mentored projects like Piotr's last year, it seemed to work OK and |
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as far as I'm aware there weren't any objections or conflicts of |
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interest or anything like that. |
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2. Google are paying *GENTOO* $500 per project. Be sure to consider this |
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when you state that mentoring projects like Piotr's would be taking |
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resources away from Gentoo. |
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3. We should ask Google for their opinion on this. They are, after all, |
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running the scheme, PAYING US MONEY, and are the people who decide |
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whether we get to participate in future years. I have asked Alec to |
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inquire about this. |
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It seems that the mentors are already decided about the strategy here -- |
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prefer projects undoubtedly in line with Gentoo development, but let |
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proposal quality be the ultimate factor. |
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My personal opinion is that we shouldn't be so hard on proposals like |
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Piotr's. After all we are an open source community, the whole scheme is |
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about promoting open source, so we should try and be open in our |
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processes. In this particular case, it hasn't been decided that Paludis |
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can't ever become the package manager of choice, and even while it isn't |
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the "official" package manager right now, it is already helping |
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significantly with areas like technical QA. |
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Daniel |
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