From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 13:55:20 -0500 Message-ID: <20140208185519.GA26306@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20140205225702.GA12589@sigill.intra.peff.net> <8738jtmomb.fsf@thomasrast.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 08 19:55:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WCD3m-0002Y8-DP for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Feb 2014 19:55:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752119AbaBHSzW (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Feb 2014 13:55:22 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:47096 "HELO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751991AbaBHSzW (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Feb 2014 13:55:22 -0500 Received: (qmail 5282 invoked by uid 102); 8 Feb 2014 18:55:21 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (65.115.226.27) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:55:21 -0600 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:55:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8738jtmomb.fsf@thomasrast.ch> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:43:40PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > On a similar note, the GSoC application deadline is Feb 14th. I am > > happy to be admin again and put together the application, but we will > > need an idea page. I'll set up a page to collect them, but in the > > meantime, please dump any ideas/discussion in this thread. > > Sorry for being so procrastinative :-( > > I suggest we make it a rule that old projects cannot be proposed from > year to year. I would very much agree with that. There are projects that I have posted multiple years, and nobody ever selects them. I should take that as a hint that they are not appealing to students for whatever reason, and are probably just clogging up the ideas list. I'd make an exception for somebody who wants to substantially rework the proposal in an attempt to make it more appealing, or who has a reason why it is being re-proposed (e.g., we had student interest, but we ended up not selecting it due to running out of slots or something). But those should be the exception. -Peff