Re: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2

["Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@dwim.me>]

On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 13:33 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:21:20PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > 
> > > > I am wondering if we heard from libgit2 folks if they want us
> > > > to
> > > > host them (or they want to participate in GSoC at all).
> > > 
> > > The libgit2 mention is left from previous versions of this page.
> > > I left
> > > a message on their IRC channel asking to join this thread if
> > > people were
> > > interested (I don't know the libgit2 community really well, and I
> > > didn't
> > > find a mailing-list to Cc here). 
> > > 
> > > I did not hear anything from them. We should probably remove the
> > > mention
> > > of libgit2. Or, if anyone receiving this message is interested in
> > > having
> > > libgit2 participate, or knows anyone who may be, speak now.
> > 
> > I think they do a lot of their communication via GitHub issues.
> > I've
> > cc'd Carlos, the maintainer, who can ping the rest of the community
> > as
> > appropriate.
> > 
> > I don't think we did a libgit2 project last year, and included the
> > libgit2 references mainly so that we would not drop them with zero
> > warning.
> 
> Understandable.  I do not mind seeing us hosting them if that is
> what they want, but the candidate selection and mentor assignment
> between two more-or-less independent projects would not work very
> well unless there is _some_ degree of coordination ;-)

We still have most of the same things open as for the 2014 list. I'll
ask around to see if we have. Last year I wasn't involved in the
candidate selection but IIRC we didn't do a project as none of the
applications showed the candidates would be capable of doing the
project they were applying for.

I'll ask around to make sure people would be able to be mentors, but I
think that we would still like to put forward a few projects (I can
send a PR with the projects that we would still like to see to the 2016
page).

Cheers,
   cmn