[fab] Google's Summer of Code 2006
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Apr 16 19:50:58 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:00 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 18:11 -0500, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
> > Google has just announced that they will sponsor the event again this
> > year.
> > Will we participate again?
>
> The question is how are we doing now with the projects we SoC'd last
> year? Where are the developers we paid to do work? How
> maintainable/sustainable is the code and the projects? One of the
> problems I heard expressed from last year was that once the money dried
> up the developers vanished, leaving what they had done at whatever state
> it was at. While this might be acceptable for improvements to existing
> projects, it wasn't very good for brand new projects.
>
> I think we seriously need to look at how to use these folks in the best
> way possible, and I honestly thing starting a bunch of projects from
> scratch is a bad use. Have them work on improving some project with
> code that can be maintainable after they leave. Basically approach it
> with the idea that as soon as the summer is over, the developer will be
> vanished, and we have to take what they've done and continue it somehow.
>
I agree.
I can think of a number of enhancements to moinmoin or applications in
turbo gears (what Elliot has been doing a fair bit of coding in) that
would be useful for fedora and wouldn't take a herculean effort to
maintain.
Targeting web apps might be a better way.
Hey, I know - what if we had someone write us a mirror database system
since it seems like bouncer is just about never going to be in the state
we need it in. :)
or maybe just see if we can SoC someone into fixing bouncer as we need
it.
-sv
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