Re: GSoC 2011 : one more interested student.

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 03:31:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > * Build a minimal Git client based on libgit2
> > It seems to be a quite popular task :) Hacking on this small git
> > client would be a nice experience and would help me understanding how
> > libgit2 works.
> 
> It seems that libgit2 project got GSoC slots out of the git project even
> though they didn't apply themselves ;-)  But if you are interested in the
> git project proper, there also are ideas on the wiki page.

Just to be clear, nothing has any slots yet. We will get a bunch of
proposals (and yes, there are a _ton_ of libgit2 proposals), and then
the mentors as a group will rate them and decide which ones we want. And
then Google will tell us how many slots we get, and if we have more good
proposals than slots, we decide what to cut.

So libgit2 may get zero slots, but given the interest, I hope that it
will get something.

We could potentially spin libgit2 off as its own organization next year.
I've been surprised by how much student interest there is in it this
year.

-Peff