On 11/22/2013 05:03 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
Interestingly enough, I /do/ have a project I'd be happy to put forward that's quite in scope if we'd like to touch on something more system-level than our usual UX fare: there is a serious hole in reasonably self-contained distributed cron-like schedulers in the open source world, and I can see a number of valuable uses for one in Tool Labs (and probably some spots in prod!).
I've had that idea at the back of my mind for some time, and I was planning on starting it myself but for the lack of actual free time. This is a very well delineated project of sufficiently modest scope that a small team of students may well be able to tackle succesfully in that kind of timeframe, and it's sufficiently generally useful that it makes for a worthwhile open source project.
Thoughts? Is it worth suggesting and putting forward?
If you ask me, yes, of course!
Please add it to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
If community discussion is needed/useful then a good idea would be to file an enhancement request in Bugzilla linked to the project description at the wiki page. Anyway we create reports for all the projects we bring forward in order to track them.
Thank you for stepping in with a project you have the skills to mentor but don't have the time to depevol yourself. That's the attitude!