From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:26:29 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20150218191417.GA7767@peff.net> <20150220071342.GB8763@peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Duy Nguyen , Git Mailing List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 20 09:26:56 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 1YOivH-0004e3-7W for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:26:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753618AbbBTI0v (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:26:51 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com ([209.85.214.170]:46562 "EHLO mail-ob0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752663AbbBTI0u (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:26:50 -0500 Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id va2so22852037obc.1 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:26:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=QQLVuUSvfuiI30xD6NAPXET53RsnRjKiqBap1AR3qyc=; b=Q8OJiYedPWe+tX2CCeIrRJY0fwwQYvcxkixk8qpXuZgNNHv1nuw52/OfhdjTfdbAtv 5Iv++6GirFyh4wE2ZgCDTgFnz6ZRRoq995DCfwOD/yUiDjpcqKLqmxYotNG8QBmCn6yQ Poz84HQrcJmFHbYFR1wx+358FiQqBmFogzrYTuZRAu/d/Qlw0KTq2KE/pPcJNGahWIPi k8FOUyMnHKVkyj9+XHEIQ0McqrgbWXxvuVSivjl1d7lQR7YcyKJTSlii0PSgZCChnURV s5Xi7EHjdDwKSc/hfwbuqEKJKl+DSEAYk5dHtYx3Qzfl/G6pD1TS8XbbY+CC6lo4CyEb g+dA== X-Received: by 10.182.68.12 with SMTP id r12mr5761205obt.84.1424420809806; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.202.48.132 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:26:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150220071342.GB8763@peff.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: oChghtSU-Vl6gABf_82nVy0b-Uc Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Jeff King wrote: >> There is debian bug 777690 [1] that's basically about making tag's >> version sort aware about -rc, -pre suffixes. I imagine it would touch >> versioncmp.c and builtin/tag.c (to retrieve the suffixes from config >> file). >> >> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777690 > > I think that's a reasonable thing to work on, but it's too big for a > microproject and too small for a GSoC. That is certainly too big as a Micro, but I do not think it is too small for GSoC, if it is to be done right (meaning, not just implementing an arbitrary version comparison hardwired, but design how to make it extensible). I have a feeling that I am complaining that student projects are designed to be too grand and getting told that I am overly pessimistic by everybody else every year. Perhaps this year others may prove me wrong, if we can find mentors, that is ;-)