[Soc-coordination] DGSOC idea and discussion

[Fred Concklin]

Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On 03/21/2011 11:02 PM, Obey Arthur Liu wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Fred Concklin <fredconcklin at gmail.com>wrote

[snip]

>> I think there are interesting possibilities around /correctly/ porting
>> Debian to these new devices.
>> Indeed Debian has been quite popular due to its flexibility, modularity and
>> ARM support, although the smart people who did the existing ports are not
>> part of the Debian community.
>>   
> Could there not be a way to specify exactly that as some sort of a
> project? The GSoC could provide some extra helping hands to perform that
> exact linking between those porters and our community.

That's an interesting idea. The first thing that comes to mind is
documentation and maybe hosting for porters. Maybe also documentation
for porting (cross-compiling, etc.). 

Any other ideas on outreach, tools, etc. for porters? 

> Steffen

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