cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml ideas.xsl

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 18 Mar 2008  
17:37:26 +0000 (GMT)):

>
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
>> This is missing an explanation what the tags mean. A student may   
>> get confused by this. What does it mean that the soc2007 ones are   
>> tagged like they are? For a lot of them I don't see changes in p4.   
>> Are there projects where a follow up in the SoC 2008 could be   
>> beneficial? What are the outstanding issues?
>
> What I basically did is take ideas for whom a significant amount of
> work was done towards the goal as part of GSoC 2007 and mark them as
> soc-2007 instead of soc on the basis that we weren't immediately clear
> if they were "free" to be done this year.  I've contacted a few of the

Currently (when a student looks at the ideas page) it is not clear  
what the 2007 label means. Removing the 2007 marker would be better.  
Why do we need to keep it merked as a previous SoC entry? With the  
2008 markers we explicitly tell that those items are encouraged to  
take for the SoC. This means items without the marker are not  
encouraged to take for the SoC. A part of the 2007 items has a WIP  
link, and the rest has at least a technical contact. As such I propose  
to our soc organizers (you and Murray, as both of you commit to the  
ideas list), to remove the 2007 markers, as this would be less  
confusing for the students and would give the same hint to not take  
this (the good students will contact the technical contact before the  
application anyway).

Bye,
Alexander.

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