On 01/03/08 at 13:48 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes: > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:07:11PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> However, I would prefer to share the mentoring with someone else, in > >> case I get too busy with other things at some point. > >> > >> Is someone interested? > > I'm interested in seeing this project getting through. Given that nobody > > else has yet stepped in, I'm willing to help in being a co-mentor for > > this. > > FWIW, I can help too (though I'm of the opinion that this project is a > wonderful example for something that can hardly be done by someone not > experienced with Debian) As you probably noticed, I have quite a lot of reasons to think that it would be better to have a non-DD be the student for this project (see the thread on -devel@). ;) But leaving those reasons aside, I still don't see why a non-DD could do this project. First, surely, having access to merkel would make things easier, since most of the required data is already available there. If the student is a not a DD, someone will have to copy some of this data to another host. That takes time, but it's not so difficult. On the other hand, the resulting code will be more flexible, able to deal with data in various places. Secondly, of course, good knowledge of Debian is required. But we are talking about a summer project, not a one-week project. I don't see the problem with the student spending some time discovering/understanding some tricky parts of Debian infrastructure/organization. This could even result in some good documentation being written. I'm interested in seeing this project being finished at some point. If the student doesn't finish the project, it's still possible that someone else will take it over, or that the student will finish it after GSoc is over. I personally rank "get fresh blood in Debian" higher than "get useful things done", so I don't have a problem with that. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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