Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

["Jonas Fonseca" <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>  > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>  > As for projects, I imagine that Gitorrent, further builtinification and
>  > Windows support would be good candidates.
>
>  Yea, Gitorrent would be cool.  Especially since send-pack is
>  somewhat heavy on the server's resources and there are some very
>  popular projects offered in git format (hello Linux kernel!).

I will take this opportunity to add a few comments and promote a page.
To help improve chances of success for such a project, perhaps a
"community" edition of the protocol is in order. I have been planning
(and still are) to do a review of the protocol specification with input
from the mailing list. Basically, I am thinking to break the current RFC
document into self-contained chunks: a formal introduction + goals,
meta file and tracker part, and finally repository serialization and peer
wire.

In preparation, I started to populate pages at:

  http://gittorrent.googlecode.com/

If there is interest I will try to find time to restart this process.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca