[haiku] Re: please keep non-GSoC comments out of these threads; was [GSsC] usermode Haiku or file system development
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:19:10 -0700
PulkoMandy wrote:
No, no, no.
Due to the way GSoC works, when a student picks a task, no one can
help working on it for the whole summer (besides the mentor, to some
extent). This means having a student working on a task locks any other
dev from contributing to it. If the code the student writes gets lost,
then it's 3 month waiting for nothing. That's why the proposals this
year are more disconnected from R1.
That would be true assuming all unimplemented R1 features are being
worked on by someone, which does not seem to be the case/ So it does
look like there are enough of R1 features that have not been adopted by
any dev (IRQ routing, Media Kit related stuff, Package Manager/UnionFS,
ACPI, etc.) that could make good candidates for GSoC.
Also, I don't think the project being forgotten in some obscure branch
are the most numerous : see the locale kit and the webkit port as
examples. The locale kit proposal at least was my own idea and not
part of the list. I think it worked pretty well, and I don't think you
see it as a bad thing ?
Locale kit, antialiasing, webkit port and others all are good examples
of successful GSoC projects. But they have not helped get Haiku closer
to R1, and that's the point that Jatsek was making (and that I agreed
with). Not that they are not welcome features (heck, I am translating
Haiku like crazy and love Web+); but it's like the never ending story of
adding more and more to the features set and never getting there (there
being R1).
A line has to be drawn at some point, and IMO we are way past that point
to be considering dedicating resources for more post-R1 features.
IMHO and FWIW. Cheers,
--
Jorge/aka Koki
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