Sending from phone, please pardon errors.
There are projects that use gsoc for docs and the like. I would see nothing wrong with someone contributing code to the installer -- especially someone with less familiarity with p9 than most 9fans -- they will likely taake longer than 1-2 weeks. Additionally it might be a good opportunity to get someone interested who doesn't have C skills, which is something we have been historically awful at in GSoC.
--dho
On Mar 14, 2012, at 18:15 , Charles Forsyth wrote:
> At least in the past, I'm sure I followed a discussion that the summer of
> code was intended (ie, required) to produce code, not documentation
> or packaging, although that might have changed.
This is true. All projects in GSoC are required to be (at least principally)
about producing code. No prohibition on including work on relevant
documentation, of course, but code must be the focus.
Which isn't to say that installation is out of scope. I could imagine a
proposal looking at creating installation CDs from trees or installing
under different circumstances being code-focused.
Anthony