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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:25:01 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        dan_partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)
Message-ID:  <20160420042500.GA27553@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <7bdb565ea95cd3783957f1de6580bf64@rdsor.ro>
References:  <E1asbZj-0003Ra-Qs@rmm6prod02.runbox.com> <76093.1461096570@critter.freebsd.dk> <7bdb565ea95cd3783957f1de6580bf64@rdsor.ro>

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On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 05:37:00AM +0300, dan_partelly wrote:
> Year after year you hear about new GsoC projects, then nothing. I find
> it hard to believe that none of those actually produced any useful code.

The goal of GSoC is to introduce new people to FreeBSD more than it is
to produce committable code.

It's designed as a learning experience.

Sometimes, it has the pleasant property of producing code that can be
committed without rework, but not that often.

mcl



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