Debian has appeared on the list of GSoC organisations so there is a real possibility this could go ahead
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects/Recursively%20building%20Java%20dependencies%20from%20source However, it really needs a couple of other mentors to work on it with me as a mentoring team, partly because Ganglia has also been invited to participate this year and I will have to focus on that (as I am one of the Ganglia admins) I already have some rough plans for this project and how it can be broken down into tasks that are achievable for a student in 8 weeks. I can also provide a virtual server for the student and mentors to collaborate. Please feel free to email me privately if interested On 09/02/14 12:20, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 09/02/14 12:07, ewl+debian+nospam2...@lavar.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 09/02/14 11:49, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I've put in a potential Java project for GSoC: >>> >>> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects/Recursively%20building%20Java%20dependencies%20from%20source >>> >>> >>> >>> Would anybody be interested in being part of a mentoring team for this >>> project? If so, please just add your name. >>> >> What about adding a project proposal around packaging of a newer version >> of Eclipse? I'm suggesting this because this is something I'd love to >> have and nobody seems to have time for it, but I must honestly say that I >> don't even have the time for mentoring... >> > > Outright packaging projects are not really considered because the > student will not always want to maintain the package after the 8 week > internship finishes. > > The type of project I have proposed would assist with packaging Eclipse > and other complicated projects because it involves recursively building > their dependencies in a lightweight manner before anybody has to > manually package each dependency. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/530bb110.4010...@pocock.com.au
