From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:36:21 -0500 Message-ID: <20080228063621.GR8410@spearce.org> References: <200802262356.28971.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 28 07:37:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUcO8-0002X2-6V for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:37:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752339AbYB1Gg0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:36:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752343AbYB1Gg0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:36:26 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:37524 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752200AbYB1GgZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:36:25 -0500 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JUcNR-0001Eq-TR; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:36:21 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5B46620FBAE; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:36:21 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > I have just read (via Linux Today news[*1*]) that GSoC 2008 initiative > > starts early. Applications for organizations open March 3 and close > > March 12. Git development community participated in GSoC 2007 with two > > projects accepted[*2*]: builtinification and libification. What do you > > think about their results for git? What do you think about participating > > in this year GSoC? > > I think that GSoC2007 was quite nice for us. And with what we learnt, we > would do even better in 2008. I agree. Unfortunately though it seems only 3 of us out of 855 current subscribers to the git mailing list have anything to say on the subject in the past couple of days. :-\ > However, I simply do not have the time to serve as primary contact. I am > willing to be mentor again, though. I'd be willing to do it again, as well as mentor a student. I found it very interesting last year. > As for projects, I imagine that Gitorrent, further builtinification and > Windows support would be good candidates. Yea, Gitorrent would be cool. Especially since send-pack is somewhat heavy on the server's resources and there are some very popular projects offered in git format (hello Linux kernel!). I'd love to see new features added to git-gui, but I'm being selfish. Ditto with jgit and egit, though I think Robin has done a stellar job with them thus far. I can still want them to grow. pack v4 (or maybe v5?! a student could have better ideas then we have thus far come up with) would also be interesting. My list could probably go on for a bit. -- Shawn.