Re: Google Summer of Code: Installer for Hurd
Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:11:34PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote:
>
>>Hello again,
>>On 5/6/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>>Indeed; if you manage to get the damn thing to boot, I'll be on it like
>>>a shot. :-)
>>>
>>>Here's the diff from my working d-i tree:
>>>
>>> http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/hurd/d-i.diff
>>
>>As I could see you have done a great job here but my question is, If we got
>>this approved by google will be better start the project from the scrach,
>>start where Colin stoped or a mixture of both? I have read, superficialy,
>>the diff files and I think we could use them as guide for the development
>>proccess and not simply catch the Colin code and continue from where him
>>stoped. This is the most simple way, IMHO.
>
>
> I think it would be a shame to throw away my work and start from
> scratch, and I think it would be a waste of a student's time. Google
> isn't paying people to reinvent wheels for the sake of it; it's paying
> them to do work useful to free software projects. IMO it's entirely
> appropriate for a student to take existing work and run with it; I
> believe that, even with the groundwork I've tried to lay, there is still
> plenty of material in a d-i Hurd port to keep a student busy for quite
> some time.
That settles it as far as I'm concerned. As long as the remaining scope
is enough we should use your work as a base to build on. It will really
be a waste to redo any work from scratch.
Baruch
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