FeaturePresto won't make beta freeze

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 19:10:39 UTC 2008


On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:49:54 +0100
Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/3/4, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>:
> >  So here's the challenge.  I need people who are willing to make a
> >  larger commitment to Fedora as part of wanting to see presto happen. I
> >  need those people to step up and volunteer to some sort of
> >  infrastructure apprenticeship.  I've no idea what that means exactly
> >  at the moment, so it will be a sort of experiment.  But I do know that
> >  I want candidates to step forward, and I'll be talking to
> >  infrastructure about selecting one or two people from that group to
> >  mentor.
> >
> >  I want this to be a somewhat competitive process.  The goal here isn't
> >  to shove 20 people at infrastructure and bog down that group's work.
> >  The goal here is to make an investment in one or two people that I
> >  feel could make a larger impact inside Fedora if they were given a
> >  modest amount of mentoring in a new area.
> >
> >  There are a lot of ideas floating around in terms of things to
> >  integrate into our build system or our website offerings. We need to
> >  find a way to build up the available manpower inside infrastructure to
> >  integrate those items as each idea matures.
> >
> >  -jef
> 
> Come with this challenge again in about a year and i will sign up for it ^_^
> At this moment it's just too early for me.. I'm, learning c++ now as i
> type this. i even have a c++ book infront of me right now. So i would
> like to sign up for this one in a year or so.

IIRC, the buildsys is written almost entirely in Python.

josh




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