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  • From: Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Summer of code 2007
  • Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:20:47 +0100

On Monday 05 of March 2007 20:53:22 Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> I've been working on the project list... started a form of it for ideas for
> the TX bugfix weekend.
So it has mainly lightweight stuff on it?

> I guess right now I'm skeptical we have something that fits. The grimoire
> is basically day-to-day updating, as you noted. Sorcery would fit but most
> of the big things are already there (castfs would probably have been a
> great project for this). The cauldron work we need right now is
> *simplifying*, not doing more advanced things.
Who said the project has to complicate the matter? Making things complex and
obfuscated is easy, simplifying is the real challenge. And cauldron doesn't
have only one tip, there are other things beside the installer one could work
on (the test case bug comes to mind). But I'll let the cauldron speak for
itself.

> I definitely thing the SoC is an interesting thing and would like to see us
> in a place to take advantage of it someday but our current focus is
> "stability and repeatability" and I'm not sure that fits what they are
> looking for.
I didn't find any text saying they are only after new feature additions (s.
stricto), it doesn't necessarily conflict with our "stability and
repeatability" goals.

We can make it in this year's soc round (even if we don't get accepted I
think
it would be good for later applications). We have one week left, but
http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727 and
http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60325&topic=10729 don't
mention any projects, so I think there is a bit more time to think them up.
However I think a basic list should be submitted with the application, so
they know we mean business.

> The init stuff is a possibility. So is ledger... I would really like to
> see ledger in our scm repository. It's difficult for me to push it on
> users or make it part of the install or anything when the project as a
> whole doesn't really have hands on it.
Ok, two confirmed candidates then.

Ladislav, can you get the current ledger code somewhere public? Or send it to
someone that can?
What all do we want from this ledger2?

http://wiki.sourcemage.org/InitMetadata has a good intro and even a spec
draft - I think it is good enough for a start. The students have 3 months to
do their thing and I think this is enough to handle this as one project.

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