On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 18:11 -0500, Patrick W. Barnes wrote: > Google has just announced that they will sponsor the event again this > year. > Will we participate again? The question is how are we doing now with the projects we SoC'd last year? Where are the developers we paid to do work? How maintainable/sustainable is the code and the projects? One of the problems I heard expressed from last year was that once the money dried up the developers vanished, leaving what they had done at whatever state it was at. While this might be acceptable for improvements to existing projects, it wasn't very good for brand new projects. I think we seriously need to look at how to use these folks in the best way possible, and I honestly thing starting a bunch of projects from scratch is a bad use. Have them work on improving some project with code that can be maintainable after they leave. Basically approach it with the idea that as soon as the summer is over, the developer will be vanished, and we have to take what they've done and continue it somehow. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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