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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:45:28 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        cvs-doc@freebsd.org
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas index.sgml
Message-ID:  <200702171645.36536.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070217153019.F48994@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200702161123.l1GBNZSD076510@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070217155538.wezh42xqeoswsw4o@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070217153019.F48994@fledge.watson.org>

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On Saturday 17 February 2007 16:38, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> (from Fri, 16 Feb 2007
> > 11:23:34
> >
> > +0000 (UTC)):
> >> rwatson     2007-02-16 11:23:34 UTC
> >>
> >>  FreeBSD doc repository
> >>
> >>  Modified files:
> >>    en/projects/ideas    index.sgml
> >>  Log:
> >>  Update ZFS "todo" to say it's being done.  Perhaps there is more=20
> >> than people
> >>  can help pjd with here, but they need to contact him first.  We
> >> need to decide if this item should still be on the TODO list.
> >
> > See my comments to the commit of joel. I really like the
> > zombie-entries idea for the list, but if nobody else likes it too I
> > don't try to push it further now.
>
> BTW, I followed up with Pawel on this one to ask about whether there
> were any obvious project tasks to be done on ZFS, and the answer was
> no.
>
> A general point: in a a few weeks, we're going to have hundreds of
> students looking at the ideas page looking for concrete project ideas
> to propose for summer of code.  We should avoid putting things on the
> ideas page if we don't want them done.  We should make it clear for
> each item that we think is worth exploring but aren't sure will be
> committed that this is the case.  This will avoid unhappiness later
> when we say "Yeah, it was on the ideas list, but really, we don't want
> that".  I'm fine with having high level categories of ideas with
> contacts, rather than having every idea there be specific and concrete,
> but let's be very careful not to ask for things we don't want.

Maybe it would be best if we would flag SoC compatible tasks as such and=20
leave the rest as is.  There are certainly a lot of smaller, less=20
challanging tasks that - eventhough not suitable for SoC - should be on=20
the ideas page.

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