[Bf-committers] Qdune code

[Joe Eagar]

Heh I just merged mine yesterday, and it merged fine.  And I hadn't 
merged for 2 months, I think :)

Joe

Alexander Ewering wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Joe Eagar wrote:
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>> Also I have to disagree on such a policy; it'd encourage students to
>> abandon projects if they feel theres no way to meet the deadline, even
>> if they spend a great deal of time on 'em.  This year several of the
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> Well. Deadlines are there to be met, if not, you don't need a deadline. I'm
> not always the right person to make such a statement because I also miss
> deadlines in my commercial stuff, but if you don't even have a GOAL to meet
> the deadline, you can scrap the deadline altogether.
>
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>> GSoC projects did get pretty much working on-time (mine before goal
>> changes, the audio one, GLSL and the bevel one I believe).  None were
>> acutally merged into trunk, which is weird.  Certainly GLSL, bevel and
>> audio seem to be relatively finished.
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>
> That's why I was saying "it doesn't always seem to be the pupils' fault". Of
> the 5 projects this year, NONE is yet in trunk, and two have not been synced
> for more than 2 months, which might roughly be equivalent to "unsyncable by
> now".
>
> The later it gets, the less probable it becomes for them to get in, because
> it will become more and more difficult to merge them as code changes in
> trunk, especially in the dawn of Peach... it's a pity, that was all I was
> trying to say.
>
> Alexander Ewering
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