Plan 9 and Inferno

Post-mid-term changes

uriel@noreply.cat-v.org — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:24:28 +0200

First of all, I want to thank all the students and mentors who have worked hard
to make this GSoC successful.

The mid-term evaluations are over, and there are both good and bad news and
some important changes on how we are going to work from now on.

The good news: some projects have made amazing progress and are well underway
to archive their main goals, congratulations to everyone who got this far.

The bad news: many projects are way behind schedule, and what is worse, due to
lack of open communication it is impossible to estimate what their exact status
is and what changes need to be made to bring them back on track.

During the first half of GSoC everyone got a free hand to organize their
projects in any way they wanted, no requirements were made and there was no
control of how projects were going.

It was probably naive to assume things would work out fine this way, but it
probably was a lesson we needed to learn.

Starting next week every project should at least follow this basic requirements:


* Students should post to their blog or in this list at least twice a week ...

Fixed RSS feeds

uriel@noreply.cat-v.org — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:27:27 +0200

RSS feeds were broken for a while, they should be working properly again, sorry for the inconvenience.

First general IRC meeting

uriel@noreply.cat-v.org — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:58:24 +0200

I hope that all your projects are going well. Given that all projects should be
underway by now, and that almost all participants got accounts at
http://gsoc.cat-v.org now it is a good time to  get together in irc and see
what everyone is up to and discuss any issues anyone might have.

Two irc meetings per week are planned, so don't worry too much if you can't
attend one of them. The first one will be tomorrow at 22:00 UTC. The location
as usual is #plan9-gsoc in irc.freenode.org (and don't forget that you probably
can hold of someone there any time of the day or night if you have any
questions or problems.)

New website code and rss feeds

uriel@noreply.cat-v.org — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:57:36 +0200

[Kris](/people/kris/) has been heavily reworking and cleaning up the code that runs this site (now can be found in the hg repo under [werc](/hg/werc)) including implementing rss feeds for all blogs!

There have also been some minor improvements, like automatic blog setup for user and project blog directories and other minor fixes.

Dave Eckhardt proposed that we have a table of projects that tracks the last commit and last blog post for each project, a prototype of this can be found in [/projects/table](/projects/table). 

Enjoy and please report any issues or suggestions in #plan9.

More information about gsoc resources

uriel@noreply.cat-v.org — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:51:08 +0200

I have created [a page](/about) that documents the resources and services provided by gsoc.cat-v.org, please take a look and let me know if there is anything else you would like to see.

Mercurial web interface

uriel@noreply.cat-v.org — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:23:16 +0200

I have setup the [web interface for the mercurial repos](/hg/), feel free to
start pushing the repos for your projects under /gsoc/hg/.

Site is up

uriel@noreply.cat-v.org — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:44:07 +0200

The first version of the Plan 9 GSoC site is up!

Things are still being worked on, and most people don't have their accounts
setup yet. The mercurial repos and 9P access will be next.

Update: *Per-project blogs webpages were also broken, I fixed them now, all blogs should be working properly now*.