Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-12 Thread Randall Wood
On 3/11/08, William Siegrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I added both of Randall's tasks (#3 and #10 now). > > Randall, can you be a mentor for these? If so, can you add yourself to > the wiki page? I can Mentor, and the Wiki page is up to date. > > http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/mac

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-11 Thread William Siegrist
I just finished submitting our application. -Bill On Mar 11, 2008, at 12:58 PM, William Siegrist wrote: Ok, I added both of Randall's tasks (#3 and #10 now). Randall, can you be a mentor for these? If so, can you add yourself to the wiki page? http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macport

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-11 Thread William Siegrist
Ok, I added both of Randall's tasks (#3 and #10 now). Randall, can you be a mentor for these? If so, can you add yourself to the wiki page? http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/SummerOfCode -Bill On Mar 4, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Randall Wood wrote: On 2/29/08, James Berry <[EMAIL

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-10 Thread William Siegrist
I can shepherd the GSoC effort for macports. I've gone through the wiki page and made the initial changes for 2008. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/SummerOfCode The next thing we need to do is to verify which of those tasks are obsolete or completed, and which tasks we sho

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-07 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Gah! If it's me or nobody, I'll do it. :-) We really shouldn't let the opportunity just slip through our fingers. Hey, Jumpy, where are you? :-) - Jordan On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:38 AM, James Berry wrote: > I haven't heard back from anybody regarding this plea/opportunity. > > I don't have

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-07 Thread James Berry
I haven't heard back from anybody regarding this plea/opportunity. I don't have time to shepherd GSoC this year. If no body steps up to do so, or to be mentors, I'm going to let this opportunity slide by. Deadline for us to apply to Google, with projects in hand, is next Wednesday, March 12.

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-04 Thread James Berry
Thanks to everybody who pitched ideas for GSoC 2008. Now the rubber needs to meet the road. We need: - Somebody to head up our GSoC 2008 effort (get us signed up with Google, document the proposed projects, etc). - And committed mentors for any projects. Volunteers? As Paul Gu

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Randall Wood
On 2/29/08, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ > . > > You might be inclined to address any of the following questions

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Randall Wood
On 2/29/08, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ > . > > You might be inclined to address any of the following questions

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
Randall Wood wrote: > As far as the complexity of RPM goes, I think that a lot of the > dp-light work is still hanging around and may be reusable, but it may > simply be a good idea for port to do a Portfile to .spec file > transform (and maybe build the SRPM) and then hand everything off to > an

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-03 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 2, 2008, at 10:58 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Randall Wood wrote: I would like to see MacPorts use RPM for its installation database instead of whatever we have now. We don't have anything now. We've also tried to use rpm at various times in the past, but

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-03 Thread Randall Wood
On 3/2/08, Jordan K. Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Randall Wood wrote: > > > I would like to see MacPorts use RPM for its installation database > > instead of whatever we have now. > > > We don't have anything now. We've also tried to use rpm at various > t

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Randall Wood wrote: > I would like to see MacPorts use RPM for its installation database > instead of whatever we have now. We don't have anything now. We've also tried to use rpm at various times in the past, but the impedance matching requirements have always p

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Blair Zajac
Randall Wood wrote: > On 3/2/08, Eric Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote: >> > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts >> > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See >> http://code.goo

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Randall Wood
On 3/2/08, Eric Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote: > > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts > > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ > > . >

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Eric Hall
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote: > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ > . > > You might be inclined to address any of the followin

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> - Binaries / Packages ("Task 4" in Wiki) >> >> Using archives (tgz/tbz/tlz) would probably be easiest to implement, >> but packages (pkg/deb/rpm) would be the most useful in my opinion. > > How would this be different from the dp-light work? (I believe that > that was wo

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-01 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: - Binaries / Packages ("Task 4" in Wiki) Using archives (tgz/tbz/tlz) would probably be easiest to implement, but packages (pkg/deb/rpm) would be the most useful in my opinion. How would this be different from the dp-light work? (I believe

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
James Berry wrote: > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ > . There's also the old MacPorts Summer of Code pages from GSoc 2007: http://trac.macports.org/project