Milan, The basic checklist includes build from source. Students are doing that on VBox (because it's free) and coming back very confused because it's not fit for purpose.
We're simply providing students with known-good configs so that they can spend their time actually looking at code and picking up bite-sized bugs when they are still weighing whether to get involved in our project. I see providing alternate distribution formats such as vmWare and KVM images as legitimate general aims that complement student recruitment. We have a sufficient diversity of interested students (GSoC is a global program, and the stipend is worth considerably more in terms of spending power in economies that are less likely to have deep broadband penetration to provide access to hosted solutions or spare affordable hardware capacity that can support illumos development) that expecting people to source kit for bare metal installs or deal with mismatched virtualization solutions is a highly counter-productive barrier. More development-appropriate installation options are will be defined by project, and accepted students will be expected to negotiate those during the bonding period from late April until project work officially commences in late May. We are not going to emulate certain Zen practices by punching young monks bordering on enlightenment in the face to help them to get them the rest of the way there, even if the technique has been known to work (you could argue that we're saving the punches until enlightenment is at hand rather than when someone first shows up at the door). Without putting too fine a point on this, I'm happy to explain the position I'm taking on this as the illumos org admin, but this isn't a debate (and, incidentally, I'm not a Zen master). More important is to match resources to problems that I can say from direct observation inhibited the program last year and threaten to do so again this year. Cheers, Bayard _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
