Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:27:45 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas index.sgml Message-ID: <20070217172745.qlurgeolwswokcww@webmail.leidinger.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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Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> (from Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:38:18 +0000 (GMT)): > 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 I don't think we should remove the research-items. Better mark them as inappropriate for the SoC. > 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. My experience with the ideas list so far is, that specific and concrete items are more likely to get picked up than high level stuff. An item will be picked up more likely, the smaller the concrete item is. This (small and very detailed) is not something we want for the SoC, but this is the FreeBSD ideas list and not the SoC ideas list. If you think something is not appropriate for the SoC, mark it up as such. If you think an idea should vanish completely, remove it with an approriate commit log or start a discussion about it the removal may be controversal. Personally I'm not emotionally attached to any entry, and I think the same is true for Joel. Related thought: maybe we will need a list of stuff we will not do ever for stuff which is removed from the list but gets suggested again. Bye, Alexander. -- Memory should be the starting point of the present. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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