From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: Re: GSOC 11: Minimal git based client based on libgit2 Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:05:18 +0530 Message-ID: <20110403153515.GB1480@kytes> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: libgit2@librelist.org, git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, Jonathan Nieder To: Sarath Lakshman X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 03 17:36:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6PM3-0003Ko-Vb for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:36:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752457Ab1DCPgd (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:36:33 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:61374 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048Ab1DCPgc (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:36:32 -0400 Received: by iwn34 with SMTP id 34so5017969iwn.19 for ; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:36:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=j0KbQTHgajud43Gr8svjKxEfJGe4YcdKUdkhKVbArrA=; b=ZnV0onMrmeP8i/xijZr+jD6qOkZT8WbO8PCqUmoxN00zsUl72MbkVBF0QT3UARg+Cu fWR+dYzqUyDgUcbbOPeuL2nqYxfrTSbpT/+6FMyqEjk5BluxSNc+E7jAl/IvXYIMH56L npf4y04YdNWFEYpwm5LRF8IHDeWHc0x6kZvXM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=SnQN7HIKNaM3t0+mJ2ZBADVy5MNbk/Q3YFMAru033fhZh7fF89vEMrlTl/A9wm1cKY XtRRVQh9T5TkI7R3SKwX708dPzkriOAOevEezViylGssPg4vtt96/MXAbrGwENvbgj23 tvs9r1BJ0eBFU78ez0dY+hJLKM9UU0HBzFIxs= Received: by 10.231.39.135 with SMTP id g7mr6036306ibe.173.1301844991779; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kytes ([203.110.240.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hc41sm3051995ibb.64.2011.04.03.08.36.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Sarath, Sarath Lakshman writes: > I am an undergraduate student from India who wants to contribute to > libgit2 during GSOC. I have worked with Fedora and Pardus during GSOC > 2008, 2009 and 2010. Thanks for writing. Sorry about the late response. > I am interested to work on libgit2 based minimal git client. I have > built the libgit2 from source and tried to write basic git tasks. I > have written a lot of python code in the past and now I look for > writing good C code. Definitely, writing a git client based on libgit2 > seems interesting. A lot of students are interested in this project. Please browse through the mailing list archives to see what the others have said -- Jonathan's response will probably be helpful [1]. Additionally, please consider submitting more than one proposal to maximize your changes. Next steps: Post a concrete proposal to the list for feedback/ discussion. You can make your application stronger by showing us some code. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170094 -- Ram