GSoC conflict on Rafael Martins

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI.
> I'm torn on this one. He seems like one of our more promising students to
> me. Do we want to replace him with the parent deltas student?

Again, do we want to fall back on less convincing proposals? It might
be a significant effort for the mentors involved and could well be a
waste of time. So I think the potential mentors should speak up here.
-parren

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz at gentoo.org>
> Date: April 19, 2010 9:45:43 PM CDT
> To: Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com>, Peter Arrenbrecht
> <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com>
> Subject: GSoC conflict on Rafael Martins
> Dear Mercurial admins,
>
> I'm the admin for Gentoo, and our organizations have an overlap with
> Rafael Martins. Rafael has one of our top-scoring proposals, and he is
> already beginning the recruitment process to become a Gentoo developer
> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296814>.
>
> Although Rafael's Gentoo project would be useful, it is a bit of a
> niche. So if you are interested in his project, it wouldn't be a huge
> deal if you wanted to take him for the summer. And of course people can
> continue contributing to multiple OSS projects, so it's not like him
> being a Gentoo developer means he can't also contribute to Mercurial
> once the summer's over.
>
> Unfortunately, we would have to give a slot back to Google if we don't
> get him, as we don't have any replacements for that project.
>
> I spoke with Rafael tonight, and he'd rather work on his Gentoo
> application, although he does really like his Mercurial proposal too.
> Does it work for you if we take him?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> Donnie Berkholz
> Admin, Summer of Code
> Gentoo Linux
> Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
>
>
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