[Soc-coordination] GSoC 2014: mhonarc replacement for lists.debian.org

[Nicolas Dandrimont]

* Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> [2014-03-05 11:24:19 +0100]:

> Hello,
> 
> I already wrote that I'm interesting in project for archiving and
> formatting emails from mailinglists. I asked confirmed mentor formorer
> for this project [1] and he wrote me that he would happy to accept
> this application.
> 
> But there is one important thing about it. For my bachelor thesis I
> have already started doing something similar/same. So I need to know
> if I can to participate with this project [1] for GSoC 2014 and reuse
> my bachelor project code or continue working on it for GSoC. In my
> opinion according to this Google GSoC FAQ [2] it is allowed. But is it
> OK for Debian as mentoring organization? Or are there any other
> problems?

As an org admin I have no problem with that, provided that the original
software is free and published in some way, and that your modifications stay
that way. All the more so if the project mentor already ACKed that the software
would fit. Software reuse and adaptation is perfectly fine, all the more so in
a distribution where doing just that is our "core" line of work.

Obviously you'll have to go through the normal student application process and
get ranked using the same criteria as other students would be, but you won't be
forced to build everything from scratch, if your mentor says it's OK. And if
the code is published free software, then any student is free to do the same
and build their application upon that same base.

(As an aside, having some software written already proves, to some extent, your
worth as a GSoC student, and therefore can only help the mentor evaluate your
application in a favorable light)

Cheers and HTH,
-- 
Nicolas Dandrimont

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