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Re: Project proposal for Google Summer of Codes
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Andrew John Hughes |
Subject: |
Re: Project proposal for Google Summer of Codes |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:55:37 +0000 |
On 20/03/2008, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Mukesh Palathingal wrote:
> > I would like to make a project
> > proposal that is out of your idea list.
>
>
> That's always welcome, provided it is a project having to do with GNU;
> however:
>
>
> > PROPOSAL
> > The project is about INTEGRATING THE LINUX VFS LAYER IN REACTOS. The
> > ReactOS being a free and open source operating system based on the
> > Windows NT architecture is now supporting only the FAT32 filesystem.
> > The integration of the VFS layer is focused of increasing the exposure
> > and reliability of the ReactOS. The project involves the extracting
> > the Linux VFS layer and porting this functionality into the ReactOS
> > Kernel.
>
>
> Unfortunately, none of this describes a project related to GNU. GNU is
> (most of) an operating system that can run on top of the Linux kernel;
> but it is not the Linux kernel, nor is Linux a GNU project. There are
> GNU systems which do not use Linux, and there are Linux systems which
> are not GNU; the only thing the two have to do with each other is that
> GNU operating system components on top of the Linux kernel (which we
> have termed GNU/Linux) is a popular basis for many operating system
> platforms.
>
> Similarly, the ReactOS is a separate project from GNU.
>
> The appropriate organization to mentor a project such as you describe
> would be The ReactOS Foundation, which however does not appear to be
> participating with Google Summer of Code at this time.
>
> The Linux Foundation, who sponsors development work on the Linux kernel,
> is participating, but the project you describe brings development to
> ReactOS, not to Linux, and so I doubt that they'd be an appropriate
> mentor organization.
>
> - --
> Micah J. Cowan
> Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
> and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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Google as the mentoring organisation might also be an option, given
there appear to be possible mentors already involved:
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_no_org
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