[lsb-discuss] Google Summer of Code

[Wichmann, Mats D]

R P Herrold wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>> Russ, George, please also add a more detailed description of your
>> projects to our ideas list: 
>> 
>> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code
>> 
>> We need your answer ASAP, due to the application deadline at Google.
> 
> travelling ... I tried to authenticate last night, but the
> credentials did not work as expected, and I could not readily
> put my fingers on a self-service password reset link
> 
> Looking at the task, and after the reaction (highly polarized
> with not much concensus) to Jeff's discussion on end-user
> space installs, on several package manager mailing lists, I am
> left with the strong feeling that the proposal to work on
> alien to 'grok' RPM more completely is not in a critical path
> on what needs to occur.
> 
> Seperately, the scope of the needed transform is not narrowly
> defined enough to be something a 'summer of code' intern and I
> could achieve worthwhile results on in a summer, or perhaps
> even a year. (I am also pretty unclear that a stable target
> can be documented, as it has changed within RH's rpm
> implementation over time; jbj's tine supports all variants
> with flags, but at the expense of a decade of implementing it;
> I am pretty sure only he knows the internals of all the edge
> case behaviours, as I see RH ripping out parts I know were
> added at RH engineering/product management request in years
> past)
> 
>   I suggest it not be proposed.  I am disheartened.

Is there a way we could define a "bounded" project - not
implement everything (probably impossible anyway) but
identify a few specific features?  

I know we had one specific issue that keeps biting us:

if an LSB package depends on other LSB packages,
those dependencies should not be stripped.

more ambitious is something about triggers - dunno if
that can actually be represented, but that's one of those
cited "exceptions" in LSB (that is, we say rpm format
except....)