On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:25:46 +0100
Jauhien Piatlicki <jauh...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Mathematics you said? That's nice. You can, for example, redesign our
> portage's dependency solving algorithm
More generally perhaps: do something interesting with the portage tree.
If not as directly useful as fixing dependency, a look at how bits of
the tree changed over time (particularly with regard to
inter-dependencies between the bits) could be much more interesting
than regarding any particular snapshot.
The other huge multidimensional tree we have is the bug tracker
database. Several social science majors have already tried to do
something intelligible with the bug tracker data (and failed in my
opinion) so I am confident that someone who doesn't have that socially
oriented view of networks might be able to come up with more outrageous
and interesting viewpoints on how the bug tracker actually works and how
various bits of it interconnect, or doesn't work and don't connect,
respectively.
jer
