Re: Project proposal for Google Summer of Codes

[Micah Cowan]

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Mukesh Palathingal wrote:
> I would like to make a project
> proposal that is out of your idea list.

That's always welcome, provided it is a project having to do with GNU;
however:

> PROPOSAL
> The project is about INTEGRATING THE LINUX VFS LAYER IN REACTOS. The
> ReactOS being a free and open source operating system based on the
> Windows NT architecture is now supporting only the FAT32 filesystem.
> The integration of the VFS layer is focused of increasing the exposure
> and reliability of the ReactOS. The project involves the extracting
> the Linux VFS layer and porting this functionality into the ReactOS
> Kernel.

Unfortunately, none of this describes a project related to GNU. GNU is
(most of) an operating system that can run on top of the Linux kernel;
but it is not the Linux kernel, nor is Linux a GNU project. There are
GNU systems which do not use Linux, and there are Linux systems which
are not GNU; the only thing the two have to do with each other is that
GNU operating system components on top of the Linux kernel (which we
have termed GNU/Linux) is a popular basis for many operating system
platforms.

Similarly, the ReactOS is a separate project from GNU.

The appropriate organization to mentor a project such as you describe
would be The ReactOS Foundation, which however does not appear to be
participating with Google Summer of Code at this time.

The Linux Foundation, who sponsors development work on the Linux kernel,
is participating, but the project you describe brings development to
ReactOS, not to Linux, and so I doubt that they'd be an appropriate
mentor organization.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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