From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disclaimer about the number of slots. Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:56:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1425453571-8771-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1425453571-8771-2-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <20150304075109.GC28502@peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 04 08:56:26 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 1YT4AK-0000lT-JR for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:56:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933207AbbCDH4U (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:56:20 -0500 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:33809 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759897AbbCDH4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:56:18 -0500 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t247u7qC009036 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:56:07 +0100 Received: from anie.imag.fr (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t247u7Sk029703; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:56:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20150304075109.GC28502@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:51:10 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:56:07 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: t247u7qC009036 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1426060572.17745@UkpE0P+7CCbUp+60ekF2SA Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > Maybe something along the lines of "If you are really excited about > working on git, we would love to see your application; if you are just > looking for a random project, there may be a lot of competition for a > small number of slots". Except I am not quite sure how to phrase "just > looking for a random project" that does not sound quite so demeaning. Yes, that's the idea, but I didn't find a way to say "if you're one of the great students we're looking for, please come in, otherwise go away", so I went for a neutral wording that would let the reader infer it by themselves ;-). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/