[pkg-fso-maint] GSoC d-i / FreeRunner project?

[Per Andersson]

2010/3/26 Thibaut GIRKA <thib at sitedethib.com>:
> [Argh, didn't reply to all, sorry for the duplicate]
>
>> I didn't know that it's possible to have multiple mentors for one
>> project. As this indeed seems possible I propose that Per and I (and
>> Steffen if he likes) mentor this project together. I would really like
>> to share the mentoring responsibilities and as I know Per from Debconf9
>> I think we can work together quite well. But ultimately Thibaut has the
>> right to choose his mentor(s).
>
> Well, I can't really choose anyone, since I don't know any of you :P

We'll just have to roll a dice then. ;-)

AFAIAC it doesn't matter that much, I think we all three know our way around
d-i and freerunner. I'll be happy to co-mentor this.



>> I now applied to become a mentor on the GSoC page Obey Arthur Liu
>> mentioned.
>>
>> As I didnt hear anything from Thibaut in the last few days I don't know
>> if he's still interested and if he even followed the discussion on the
>> pkg-fso list (I CC'ed him on this mail).
>
> I'm still there, (almost) silently reading (docs, mailing-lists, ...),
> and getting a bit more familiar with d-i and kernel packaging.
>
> I've made little concrete progress (as I've not tried to build anything
> yet), but I'm starting to understand how the d-i stuff works.
> I can however foresee some issues, the first one being to generate an
> u-boot image from a kernel udeb, since I've only managed to run images
> based on vmlinux (and not vmlniuz), but maybe I haven't tried hard
> enough yet :)

Sound all good to me. :-)

Speaking out of own experience, I say it would be good first step if you got d-i
to build (at all) as soon as possible.


Best,
Per