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From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9
Date: Thu,  4 Mar 2010 10:43:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F533D9C-AD08-4FBD-8ADE-4A7B86530380@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7v467xsbi.ln2@news.homelinux.net>


> 2) Add support for more SATA/AHCI controlers; I have:

FWIW, GSoC projects that amount to ``add some drivers for my non-linux OS!'' have historically been unpopular, unfinished, and generally unloved projects (perhaps barring last year, when I didn't really pay attention).  I recommend against making them a significant part of your GSoC proposal; I might go so far as to recommend against adding them at all.

*Chad


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-04 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03 23:09 Tim Newsham
2010-03-03 23:40 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-04  1:35   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-03-04 17:39 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2010-03-04 18:04   ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-05 15:39     ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2010-03-04 18:43   ` Chad Brown [this message]
2010-03-04 19:05     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-04 21:13       ` ron minnich
2010-03-04 21:45         ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-05  2:55           ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-05 12:13         ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-05  1:27   ` geoff
2010-03-05  2:25     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-08 10:57     ` Balwinder S Dheeman

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