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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:35:58 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Cc:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ramblings.. or not
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508281135210.74312@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150828101655.GI16003@e-new.0x20.net>
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Lars Engels wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:31:21PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> We should also do a better job of productising and incorporating GSOC
>>> work..
>>>
>>>
>> Definitely!  It's sad to see people put a lot of working into something via
>> GSOC,
>> and then have the work die on the vine once the summer is over.
>
> There's a lack of communication. Every year we have GSOC students
> working on a part of FreeBSD, but after GSOC is over nothing happens.
> Some code goes into base quietly, some good code may be lurking in an
> external repository but nobody knows.
> My proposal is that every student and mentor should write a short
> summary of the work done and if was already committed to the tree or why
> it hasn't been committed.

That is an excellent idea.  Isn't something like that already submitted 
to Google at the end of the project?


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