comments on code-in tasks for FreeBSD (Re: FreeBSD + Google Code-In 2014 = we need ideas.)

[Peter Pentchev]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 07:55:16PM -0800, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2014, at 17:40, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> > But please nuke the current list -- it is completely inadequate
> > for the code-in candidates and misleading for whoever wants to
> > suggest new tasks. Again i am not saying that the projects
> > suggested there are not important, just belong somewhere else
> > e.g. gsoc.
> 
> I refrained from voicing my opinion while the call for help was going
> on, but I completely agree that the target age of this Google initiative
> is inadequate to FreeBSD.  The target population is 13 years to 17 years
> old and I cannot even imagine a 13 year old knowing what FreeBSD is.

...and yet there was pat@ becoming a ports committer at the age of 16
and chris@ becoming a docs committer at the age of 14 :)  I think hmp@,
alepulver@, issyl0@ and jmallett@ were pretty young when they joined,
too.

Just an observation, I know that one or two isolated cases do not prove
a point :)

G'luck,
Peter

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