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

[Max Laier]

On Saturday 17 February 2007 16:38, Robert Watson wrote:
> 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.

Maybe it would be best if we would flag SoC compatible tasks as such and 
leave the rest as is.  There are certainly a lot of smaller, less 
challanging tasks that - eventhough not suitable for SoC - should be on 
the ideas page.

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