> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 01:46:45PM +1100, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote: >> Paludis is a tool used for working with the Gentoo Portage tree - there >> is no problem with it being part of a Gentoo Google Summer of >> Code project as it will benefit the Gentoo project and its users. > > Why not simply solve the situation by making paludis the mentoring > organisation instead of Gentoo?
You assume that the paludis folks applied for mentoring org status and were accepted; which didn't happen. The Gentoo SoC team is aware of lingering issues regarding projects like pkgcore and paludis and whatnot. I'd prefer we rank applications (and applicants) based on the merits of their application as opposed to some arbitrary political system. If it happens that someone submits a very well thought out idea with defined goals, milestones, has a design plan and seems to have decent merit but happens to be say, a paludis related project; well I guess the other people should have submitted better proposals. In the end most of the ranking and chosing of projects is a huge judgement call by the SoC team and the mentors each year anyway. Personally I think python bindings for paludis push the boundaries of 'does this project affect gentoo' while say, the project idea for 'adding an ebuild development tool for paludis' does not push the boundaries. One is only tangentially related (paludis happens to be a tool that uses ebuilds) and the other could be more of a cross-project project, with 1 gentoo mentor and 1 paludis mentor. However my opinon (and most of this ensuing discussion) is probably better served for when applications are actually ranked. So in closing, we know, some of us don't care, we will disuss it during ranking. -Alec -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
