Re: ramblings.. or not

From: Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:35:58 -0600 (MDT)
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Lars Engels wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:31:21PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> We should also do a better job of productising and incorporating GSOC
>>> work..
>>>
>>>
>> Definitely!  It's sad to see people put a lot of working into something via
>> GSOC,
>> and then have the work die on the vine once the summer is over.
>
> There's a lack of communication. Every year we have GSOC students
> working on a part of FreeBSD, but after GSOC is over nothing happens.
> Some code goes into base quietly, some good code may be lurking in an
> external repository but nobody knows.
> My proposal is that every student and mentor should write a short
> summary of the work done and if was already committed to the tree or why
> it hasn't been committed.

That is an excellent idea.  Isn't something like that already submitted 
to Google at the end of the project?
Received on Fri Aug 28 2015 - 15:36:12 UTC

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