Ampache service, was: Re: extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>  >
>  > Yeah, that's the plan I was always aware of.  Just wanted to check,
>  > since that last comment...  :-)
>
>  Just regarding SoC (and avoiding the philosophical discussion here) I
>  think that we need to keep in mind that the goal of SoC is to get
>  students involved and excited about open source. This is not about
>  harvesting students to work on parts of amarok that we deem needy. If
>  a student comes to us with an idea, because he wants to implement it,
>  we shouldn't say "well, do this instead, it needs more work". If the
>  student doesn't really care about this new project, he won't be
>  motivated, and then everyone loses. Rather, we should tell the student
>  "we don't think this is a good project for X and Y reasons, but there
>  is a related proposal that you could investigate."
>
>  i just think that arguing the project that a student will work on is
>  the wrong way of looking at it---we should care about what the /
>  student/ wants to do, and if we don't agree, just state that clearly.
>
>  leo

I think if you look at the specifics of this case, we really are just
asking him to make his proposal stronger. Vollmer has said that
uploading large files may be a challenge, but it's not a 160 hour
challenge.

Ian