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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:56:23
Message-Id: 460580F8.7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis by Josh Saddler
1 Josh Saddler wrote:
2 > We should not have third-party projects be part of SOC
3
4 I see 3 important points missing from the discussion so far:
5 (not directed at any response in particular)
6
7 1. We mentored projects like Piotr's last year, it seemed to work OK and
8 as far as I'm aware there weren't any objections or conflicts of
9 interest or anything like that.
10
11 2. Google are paying *GENTOO* $500 per project. Be sure to consider this
12 when you state that mentoring projects like Piotr's would be taking
13 resources away from Gentoo.
14
15 3. We should ask Google for their opinion on this. They are, after all,
16 running the scheme, PAYING US MONEY, and are the people who decide
17 whether we get to participate in future years. I have asked Alec to
18 inquire about this.
19
20
21 It seems that the mentors are already decided about the strategy here --
22 prefer projects undoubtedly in line with Gentoo development, but let
23 proposal quality be the ultimate factor.
24
25 My personal opinion is that we shouldn't be so hard on proposals like
26 Piotr's. After all we are an open source community, the whole scheme is
27 about promoting open source, so we should try and be open in our
28 processes. In this particular case, it hasn't been decided that Paludis
29 can't ever become the package manager of choice, and even while it isn't
30 the "official" package manager right now, it is already helping
31 significantly with areas like technical QA.
32
33 Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o>