From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JowyE-0006DU-PM for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:38:23 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JowyB-00069k-08 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:38:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jowy4-00065G-3B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:38:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57744 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jowy3-00064w-UT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:38:12 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jowy1-0004NB-Ux for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:38:10 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JowKV-0008Ic-8K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:57:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JowJA-0000K2-Sd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:55:57 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JowIC-0007bm-LO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:54:56 +0200 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:54:56 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080424075456.GC28907@thorin> References: <480D0056.8030603@nic.fi> <8763u8j41z.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8763u8j41z.fsf@xs4all.nl> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code 2008 / GRUB 2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:38:21 -0000 On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > First of all, the code. I think it would be a good idea if I would > send in patches for my code so it will be immediately integrated into > GRUB 2. I'd prefer if the GSoC stuff was merged at the end of summer, or at least when it is fully functional. My concern is not as mentor but as Debian maintainer. We're trying to stabilize for a release currently; major reorganization of the code without enough timeframe to stabilize will force us to branch quite early, which I'd rather avoid if possible. Thanks for considering ;-) -- Robert Millan "The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the legal evasion of the license [...]. That's the provision in section 1 regarding keys. [...] We say one thing: when you sell somebody a home... give him the keys" -- Eben Moglen on GPLv3