From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9ab217670903261423m69ef0781hf610195cdc4840e9@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaafc130903261410n49edda35le70f1b8a0a2c9e38@mail.gmail.com> <2A98192D-577C-4022-8E8D-928639AFDA50@sun.com> <9ab217670903261423m69ef0781hf610195cdc4840e9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:18:13 +0100 Message-ID: From: yy To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Gitfs Topicbox-Message-UUID: ca940226-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/3/26 Devon H. O'Dell : > The GSoC traffic is misdirected. The GSoC emails *SHOULD* be going to > the plan9-gsoc list, which is hosted by Google. > I hope the plan9-gsoc list gets more attention. I sent my project ideas there a week ago and you were the only person who replied my message. Maybe that's why people is directing their emails to 9fans. Since I would really like to hear some comments before writting my application, I will explain here what I have in mind (there's also some alternative ideas in my original message: http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc/browse_frm/thread/52d77f27a3f5645b): 1. Cleaning up drawterm and 9vx draw devices in unix (I don't have a windows or macos dev environment, or any experience FWIW). I have seen several small TODOs in the code, and in particular all the Xlib code should be isolated. I don't know if a complete merge would be possible, or if p9p could be included in the group. 2. As suggested in drawterm TODO, replace the console with 9term (in 9vx too). 3. Write a wctl device which speaks directly with Xlib, this way rio wouldn't have to (but could) be used in 9vx/drawterm, and windows could be managed with the X wm. 4. I have seen the A-term proposition in gsoc.cat-v.org and I could do it. I'm quite familiar with acme code and in fact is something I had in mind (to be used with the wctl described above). I don't think any of these projects is enough for gsoc, but more than one of the ideas could be combined. I'd like to know your opinions about what could/should be done. Regards, -- - yiyus || JGL .