Josh Saddler wrote:
We should not have third-party projects be part of SOC
I see 3 important points missing from the discussion so far:
(not directed at any response in particular)
1. We mentored projects like Piotr's last year, it seemed to work OK and
as far as I'm aware there weren't any objections or conflicts of
interest or anything like that.
2. Google are paying *GENTOO* $500 per project. Be sure to consider this
when you state that mentoring projects like Piotr's would be taking
resources away from Gentoo.
3. We should ask Google for their opinion on this. They are, after all,
running the scheme, PAYING US MONEY, and are the people who decide
whether we get to participate in future years. I have asked Alec to
inquire about this.
It seems that the mentors are already decided about the strategy here --
prefer projects undoubtedly in line with Gentoo development, but let
proposal quality be the ultimate factor.
My personal opinion is that we shouldn't be so hard on proposals like
Piotr's. After all we are an open source community, the whole scheme is
about promoting open source, so we should try and be open in our
processes. In this particular case, it hasn't been decided that Paludis
can't ever become the package manager of choice, and even while it isn't
the "official" package manager right now, it is already helping
significantly with areas like technical QA.
Daniel
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