[debexpo-devel] Our GSoC project has been accept
Ondrej Certik
ondrej at certik.cz
Tue Apr 22 17:51:42 CEST 2008
With Christoph's permission, replying to the list.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Christoph Haas <haas at debian.org> wrote:
> On Dienstag, 22. April 2008, you wrote:
>
> > Maybe tell the student to create some blog to blog about it? We do
> > that with our GSoC students in SymPy.
>
> Good idea.
>
>
> > I am on the debian-mentors list, but I am not sure it's the
> > appropriate list for discussing things about this summer project?
>
> Nah, better not. That might get annoying quickly. After all the resulting
> software is planned to be generic enough to be used for any kind of
> repository. Of course I have a strong personal interest to use it for
> mentors.debian.net but it will hopefully please most "repositoring
> needs". :)
Yes, cool.
>
>
> > Should I
> > email you directly, or will there be some mailinglist?
>
> Feel free to email me anytime. There is not yet a mailing list - I will
> create one. Originally we considered using alioth for the project. But we
> concluded that a "Trac", a Mercurial/Git repository and a mailman mailing
> list is all we need.
Yes, definitely. If possible, please try to discuss things on the
list, so that I (and other people) can easily follow it. :)
>
>
> > I'd like to test it and/or propose some features etc. and I am sure
> > many other people will do the same.
>
> I intend to make the project as public as possible without annoying anyone.
> As soon as Jonny Lamb (the student) comes up with a concrete plan I intend
> to post that (or a link to it) to debian-mentors at l.d.o. That might get
> some more comments of things we missed. And I hope it shows Jonny that his
> work is valued.
Jonny -- your work is definitely valued. We were discussing something
like this in the past, but I never found time to do it.
What is the current plan of which features go in? I didn't see the
actual proposal, just this:
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008/debexpo
And I am very excited of course. One feature that I like to have is
some kind of automatic builds -- we have some code for it already with
Goneri, for
http://svnbuildstat.debian.net
so far I just have this quick & dirty personal repository:
http://debian.certik.cz/
but I need to compile the packages for earch architecture by hand, and
that sucks.
> As I read on the "Mentoring HOWTO" marketing is important.
> I'm so bad at this. :)
Well, there should be one main project page, with all the information,
like where is a mailinglist, where is the code, where is the blog,
etc.
Also there should be some easy way for people like me, who don't have
time to do much coding, but who have some time to test the package and
set it up for myself to create some kind of howto --- I guess
wiki.debian.org could serve for that.
Ondrej
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