Re: [gentoo-soc] Project Proposal : GenCC for "Gentoo Community Compiling"

[Antoine Pinsard]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 02:20 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> You should study what had been done in the past (distcc, icecream etc)
> and figure out what they are lacking and why nobody is using them on a
> geographic network.
>
> Then you have the problem of building a ring of trust strong enough.
>
> And eventually you have to come to term with how compilers behave
> differently depending on a number of situations.
>
> Looks a quite good research project but I warn you not to expect quick
> or easy results.
>
> lu
>

(Please excuse in advance my English expression that might not always
fit exactly what I mean to say, I'm actively trying to improve it.)

I think that, from the previous messages and my few searches on the
Internet, such a project can't be achieved yet. This could be
interesting to spend three months collecting resources, parsing them,
writing a synthesis and hopefully opening new doors to research. However
I don't believe this is the goal of the summer of code. From what I
understood, this is more about getting involved in an open source
project and achieving an end-product or improving an existing one.

I will keep tracking this research subject though and learn more about
distcc, icecream and similar tools on my spare time.

Regards,

Antoine Pinsard