On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:00 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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. > I agree. I can think of a number of enhancements to moinmoin or applications in turbo gears (what Elliot has been doing a fair bit of coding in) that would be useful for fedora and wouldn't take a herculean effort to maintain. Targeting web apps might be a better way. Hey, I know - what if we had someone write us a mirror database system since it seems like bouncer is just about never going to be in the state we need it in. :) or maybe just see if we can SoC someone into fixing bouncer as we need it. -sv
