Re: GSoC results!

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi Arne,

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:17:26AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 10 September 2008 06:52:13 schrieb
> olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:

> (Do you prefer Olaf or antrik?

I'm fine either way :-)

Initially it seemed a bit odd to me, that although I always call myself
"antrik" in all my Hurd-related an generally most of my online
activities, everyone addresses me by my christian name in email... But
by now I got used to it so much that it actually feels almost strange
when someone addresses me as "antrik" in email...

> - did I already ask that?)

Don't think so :-)

> > All in all we had five students working on a diverse selection of
> > five projects from our ideas list. All of the projects were more or
> > less successful:
> 
> Wouldn't "The students and mentors did a great job!" be more useful
> when seen from the "hey, I just entered this site, let's look what the
> Hurd is doing with GSoC" viewpoint? 

Well, while I certainly think that the students did great work, I'm
generally tend to be quite sceptical about effusive statements...

More importantly, as I did the biggest part of the mentoring, it would
be praising myself -- so obviously I couldn't write it like that :-)

Feel free to improve it :-)

> Also I want to ask: Would it be correct to say "Four of the students
> still work on further improving the Hurd". 
> 
> Differently put: @Zheng Da, Flavio Cruz, Andrei Barbu and
> Madhusudan.C.S: 
> 
>       "Are you still working on the Hurd?"

Well, Andrei told us by the end of the summer session that right after
the official deadline, he is starting on his PhD, and won't have time to
work on the project for at least four months...

All of the others have been doing some work on their projects over the
past weeks. I don't know the current status though, as nobody came to
this week's IRC meeting...

> I ask because that is the best possible outcome of a Google Summer of
> Code project, and if you're still taking part in the Hurd development,
> we should say that on the GSoC status page. 

Well, it is mentioned in the paragraphs for the individual projects...

-antrik-