From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:29:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20150220072924.GC8763@peff.net> References: <20150218191417.GA7767@peff.net> <54E6C78D.3070506@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Stefan Beller , Matthieu Moy , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Haggerty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 20 08:31:10 2015 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 1YOi3J-0005YY-SS for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:31:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753186AbbBTH32 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:29:28 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:51403 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752463AbbBTH31 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:29:27 -0500 Received: (qmail 7539 invoked by uid 102); 20 Feb 2015 07:29:27 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.1) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:29:27 -0600 Received: (qmail 7735 invoked by uid 107); 20 Feb 2015 07:29:26 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:29:26 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:29:25 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54E6C78D.3070506@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 20, 2015 at 06:35:09AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > On 02/18/2015 08:14 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > The response to my previous email was not overwhelming, but people did > > express some interest in Git doing GSoC this year. So I've started on > > the application, using last year's version as a template. > > Regretfully, I can't in good conscience volunteer to be a GSoC mentor > this year. I have too many other projects going on and don't see how I > can free up enough time to be a good mentor. Thanks for letting us know. I am somewhat in the same boat. I might be able to make time, but the bar that the student/project combo would have to clear would be quite high for me to agree to do so. This brings up an important issue. We cannot do GSoC without mentors. I had hoped that people populating the "ideas" list would volunteer to mentor for their projects. But so far the possibilities are: - Stefan - me, who has already promised to be stingy - Matthieu, who also cited time constraints - Junio, who contributed some project ideas, but who in the past has declined to mentor in order to remain impartial as the maintainer who evaluates student results (which I think is quite reasonable) So...basically 1 mentor and 2 reticent maybes? That doesn't look good. We are not committed to anything until we accept student proposals, of course. But I would not want to waste students' time in applying if it is not realistic for us to accept them. -Peff