Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item - MythTV
On 21:03 Mon 12 Dec , Peter Volkov wrote: > В Птн, 09/12/2011 в 20:38 -0500, Rich Freeman пишет: > > I'm considering sending out this news item in a few days - comments > > are welcome. It is a bit different in tone from a typical news item > > but MythTV has been in not-so-great shape for a while and my goal is > > to reel things in a bit and commit to something we can continue to > > maintain, while soliciting help from the community. > > This does not look like a news item, but more like a project status > update or blog post. Probably it's much better to create webpage (or > news item) on www.gentoo.org and add elog/ewarn to point there. Once > mythtv team changes this information may change, but all users will see > it anyway. I like it fine as a GLEP42 news item, I hate it as a news item on the homepage for sure. Seems to me that pointing to the website for plaintext docs like this is kinda defeating the point of these news items. It's certainly more news rather than a long-term useful document, because at some point the change will happen, and then things are just the way they are. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgp89aeKXo0TJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo
On 10:29 Wed 14 Dec , Alec Warner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Gaurav Saxena wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I > > would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you > > please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as > > well as gentoo. I am interested in parallel computing, data structures , > > operating system. I am well versed in C/C++. I think there might be > > projects which need to be done, I would like to work on them. > > The only idea I can think of for parallel computing / distributed > systems would be at the build level. > > distcc-ng, a farm of user-controlled machines that compile your code > in a p2p fashion. I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was typically accessible at the time outside of universities and LANs. Could be worth exploring again now that 25-100 mbps connections are becoming more common. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpbIWA2YfXR3.pgp Description: PGP signature
