Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist
On 2009-04-10, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
>> * Debian Autobuilding Infrastructure Rewrite *
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> Student: Philipp Kern, Mentor: Luk Claes
>>
>> Rewrite the software that currently runs the Debian autobuilding
>> infrastructure in a way that makes it more maintainable and robust. It
>> will use Python as its programming language and PostgreSQL for the
>> database backend. By harmonizing buildds, many build failures can be
>> prevented and wasteful workload on buildd volunteers can be reduced.
>
> What parts are concerned and how will it work out with Roger Leigh ?
> Will he be involved or not ?
>
> I remember that among the rules the student should work alone on the
> code, he should not have external help so that the result can be judged as
> being his work. Would it be problematic in this case ?
The complete proposal is available here:
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/user/pkern/wb_python
Sadly proposals are not publically viewable so this is a copy I kept in my
personal namespace during its development.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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