From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:50:39 -0500 Message-ID: <20140213085039.GA29152@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20140205225702.GA12589@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Christian Couder , git To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 13 09:50:47 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 1WDs0L-0005oJ-Vb for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:50:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753042AbaBMIul (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:50:41 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:49695 "HELO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752676AbaBMIul (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:50:41 -0500 Received: (qmail 7829 invoked by uid 102); 13 Feb 2014 08:50:41 -0000 Received: from c-71-63-4-13.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (71.63.4.13) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:50:41 -0600 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:50:39 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > > Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish. > > Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely > too small for a GSoC project. But that could be a part of it. I'm not > sure how google welcomes GSoC projects made of multiple small tasks, but > my experience with students is that it's much better than a single (too) > big task, and I think that was the general feeling on this list when we > discussed it last year. I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting experiment. I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And bonus points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the ramp-up time from one for another. -Peff