From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:27:10 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <200802262356.28971.jnareb@gmail.com> <20080228063621.GR8410@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Robin Rosenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 28 11:28:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUfzy-0008HJ-GF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:28:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757350AbYB1K1o (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:27:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754466AbYB1K1o (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:27:44 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53580 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1759549AbYB1K1n (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:27:43 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2008 10:27:41 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 28 Feb 2008 11:27:41 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19R8vhM4N5RXh5+iiGPlLaYiBHOMpIXmPbx0UCuJ4 dpXp92H3ksm3kp X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20080228063621.GR8410@spearce.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > I have just read (via Linux Today news[*1*]) that GSoC 2008 > > > initiative starts early. Applications for organizations open March > > > 3 and close March 12. Git development community participated in > > > GSoC 2007 with two projects accepted[*2*]: builtinification and > > > libification. What do you think about their results for git? What > > > do you think about participating in this year GSoC? > > > > I think that GSoC2007 was quite nice for us. And with what we learnt, > > we would do even better in 2008. > > I agree. Unfortunately though it seems only 3 of us out of 855 current > subscribers to the git mailing list have anything to say on the subject > in the past couple of days. :-\ Yes, it is sad. Even if now 4 out of 855 current subscribers said something. > > However, I simply do not have the time to serve as primary contact. > > I am willing to be mentor again, though. > > I'd be willing to do it again, as well as mentor a student. I found it > very interesting last year. Thanks! > > 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'd love to see new features added to git-gui, but I'm being selfish. Why? I see that we had many ideas, less student applications, and even less accepted. So let's throw ideas out there! > Ditto with jgit and egit, though I think Robin has done a stellar job > with them thus far. I can still want them to grow. Robin, how about it? > pack v4 (or maybe v5?! a student could have better ideas then we have > thus far come up with) would also be interesting. That would need a student who is already familiar with Git, though. A Git newbie has no chance to learn everything necessary (including the style of the community) in 3 months _and_ finish the project. > My list could probably go on for a bit. Do go ahead! I started the page http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2008Ideas which is utterly incomplete. I just took the ideas of 2007 that I am still interested in, and removed other people from the Mentor list, because I do not want to force them. So please, if you are interested in mentoring one of the existing projects, just add yourself. And of course add all those cool projects you have in mind. Shawn, do we have to do the same again, as on this page? http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Soc2007Application Ciao, Dscho