Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:11:34PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: > >>Hello again, >>On 5/6/06, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Indeed; if you manage to get the damn thing to boot, I'll be on it like >>>a shot. :-) >>> >>>Here's the diff from my working d-i tree: >>> >>> http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/hurd/d-i.diff >> >>As I could see you have done a great job here but my question is, If we got >>this approved by google will be better start the project from the scrach, >>start where Colin stoped or a mixture of both? I have read, superficialy, >>the diff files and I think we could use them as guide for the development >>proccess and not simply catch the Colin code and continue from where him >>stoped. This is the most simple way, IMHO. > > > I think it would be a shame to throw away my work and start from > scratch, and I think it would be a waste of a student's time. Google > isn't paying people to reinvent wheels for the sake of it; it's paying > them to do work useful to free software projects. IMO it's entirely > appropriate for a student to take existing work and run with it; I > believe that, even with the groundwork I've tried to lay, there is still > plenty of material in a d-i Hurd port to keep a student busy for quite > some time.
That settles it as far as I'm concerned. As long as the remaining scope is enough we should use your work as a base to build on. It will really be a waste to redo any work from scratch. Baruch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
