InstantMirror Project: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Warren Togami wrote:

> Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/
>>> 
>>> I have wrote down design notes of the new InstantMirror project.  This
>>> project is meant to be fostered in Google Summer of Code 2009, with
>>> multiple Red Hat engineers as mentors, and possibly multiple students
>>> working together as a team. Students are to be judged by their ability
>>> to work with others as a team, their ability to implement the plan, and
>>> their ability to encourage participation from further volunteers
>>> interested in solving these problems.
>> 
>> I could be wrong but wasn't there a similar GSoC project last year ?
>> 
>
> Last year was IntelligentMirror, which had misguided goals and ultimately is 
> not very useful.

I disagree with this assessment. IntelligentMirror has turned into 
quite an interesting project. It's gone well beyond its original scope as 
a caching mechanism for packages. There's no point in being rude about it.


-sv