cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas index.sgml

[Robert Watson]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (from Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:23:34 
> +0000 (UTC)):
>
>> rwatson     2007-02-16 11:23:34 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD doc repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    en/projects/ideas    index.sgml
>>  Log:
>>  Update ZFS "todo" to say it's being done.  Perhaps there is more  than 
>> people
>>  can help pjd with here, but they need to contact him first.  We need to
>>  decide if this item should still be on the TODO list.
>
> See my comments to the commit of joel. I really like the zombie-entries idea 
> for the list, but if nobody else likes it too I don't try to push it further 
> now.

BTW, I followed up with Pawel on this one to ask about whether there were any 
obvious project tasks to be done on ZFS, and the answer was no.

A general point: in a a few weeks, we're going to have hundreds of students 
looking at the ideas page looking for concrete project ideas to propose for 
summer of code.  We should avoid putting things on the ideas page if we don't 
want them done.  We should make it clear for each item that we think is worth 
exploring but aren't sure will be committed that this is the case.  This will 
avoid unhappiness later when we say "Yeah, it was on the ideas list, but 
really, we don't want that".  I'm fine with having high level categories of 
ideas with contacts, rather than having every idea there be specific and 
concrete, but let's be very careful not to ask for things we don't want.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge