From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:37:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20140311013749.GA12033@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <530DA00E.4090402@alum.mit.edu> <20140226105249.GE25711@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20140228125241.GA23448@sigill.intra.peff.net> <53109748.3090507@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Brandon McCaig , git discussion list , Martin von Zweigbergk , Johannes Schindelin To: Michael Haggerty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 11 02:37:57 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 1WNBdk-0002Pq-G0 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:37:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752582AbaCKBhw (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:37:52 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:36972 "HELO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752323AbaCKBhv (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:37:51 -0400 Received: (qmail 3382 invoked by uid 102); 11 Mar 2014 01:37:51 -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; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:37:51 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:37:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53109748.3090507@alum.mit.edu> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:03:52PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > > I'm not sure whether it is a good idea or not. But I think it is looking > > decreasingly like a good GSoC project. > > I guess I misread the sentiment of the mailing list, because I merged > this idea into the list about two hours ago. Yeesh, sorry to be so slow on the reply to this. It floated to the bottom of my "to respond" list. > But if you think that even the proposal's simpler sub-ideas are > controversial, then let me know and I will delete the idea from the list > again. I don't want a GSoC student to have to fight battles of my own > creation :-) I'd say keep it at this point. I think there _are_ some good ideas here, and part of a project is figuring out what is good. And part of the role of the mentor is applying some taste. There are probably students who would be a good fit, and students who would not. That is true for just about every project, of course, but I think this one is just a little trickier than some. -Peff