From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9wM-0004j6-S0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:08:14 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9wL-0004iV-Oa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:08:13 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9wK-0004hY-1X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:08:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52266 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9wJ-0004hT-Sm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:08:11 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:43476) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld9wJ-0000Kq-GH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:08:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld9pB-0006hd-Ub for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:00:50 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld9wH-0008R1-1r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:08:09 +0100 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:08:09 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090227210809.GK31629@thorin> References: <49A50DA2.20604@netsyncro.com> <49A532A3.1090007@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49A532A3.1090007@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:08:14 -0000 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:59:31PM +0100, phcoder wrote: > Hello. Marco Gerards already agreed that this port is ok. I made some > investigations into their code and have to say that it won't be just a > port. It seems that some features (e.g. directory listing) are missing. > It also uses dirty tricks which limit their code to one opened file in > time. All this has to be addressed. I was planning to do ZFS however now > my studies take more time than I thought they would and so if it's ok > for maintainers to put it on summer of code or if someone wants to do > this port, it's ok with me. Some other ideas: Seems nice. Would you be willing to write a summary for these? Then we could add it to grub-soc.html. Btw, if we're going to participate we also need mentors. Who's willing to be a mentor this year? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."