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Ok so I'll get to this when I have time. It looks like this project will |
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really be started from scratch. Any suggestions of a particular SCM I'll be |
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using for it? |
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>wrote: |
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> On 19:54 Mon 16 Mar , Eitan Mosenkis wrote: |
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> > By the time development starts, I should have my own computer running |
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> Gentoo |
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> > again. My worry was about the application requirement mentioned at |
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> > |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_ideas#For_Students- |
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> > I'd have no problem making a change on SVN or whatever system, but if I |
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> want |
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> > to actually make a useful change, I'll need a Linux system to work with. |
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> > Maybe that was just a basic proficiency test and not intended to get |
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> people |
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> > to fix actual bugs, I couldn't say from the wording. |
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> It is primarily to show that you can (learn to) use the tools. This does |
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> a couple of things: |
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> * We don't need to worry about any of the actual summer going to |
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> learning the basics instead of design/coding. This means your summer |
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> will be more productive. |
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> |
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> * People who don't care at all about Gentoo won't do the small bit of |
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> work to apply because they can't just paste a template in from another |
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> organization or our ideas page. This means we'll get a higher proportion |
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> of high-quality applicants (but lower count overall), so we can spend |
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> more time working with each of you to develop your applications. |
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> -- |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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> Donnie Berkholz |
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> Admin, Summer of Code |
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> Gentoo Linux |
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> Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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