Re: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> with David's multiple ref backend work, we could have a third,
>> no-dependency backend. We can use index format to store refs.
>
> This sounds like an interesting but ambitious project for a GSoC. There
> are a lot of new stuff to understand for someone potentially new to
> Git's codebase. And it's hard to work incrementally: the result would
> hardly be mergeable before being almost finished.

On the other hand, the actual amount of code they write is roughly
about 1700 lines of refs/lmdb-backend.c. Which I guess can be written
in a month once you know what's going on, basically how refs are
handled (I think documents have been greatly improved), git object
manipulation and optionally index manipulation  (if we store in index
instead of trees). I think it's manageable. But then I haven't
interacted with students for a looong time.

> I think it's interesting to offer the idea, but there should be a
> warning for the student about the difficulties.

Yep.

> Would you be willing to (co-)mentor?

I can't guarantee I will not disappear for a couple months again like
last year. It depends on $DAY_JOB. So maybe co-mentor position, but my
other co-mentor should be ready for that situation.
-- 
Duy