From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disclaimer about the number of slots. Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:55:31 -0800 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: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 04 20:55:39 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 1YTFON-0001aH-87 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:55:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758644AbbCDTzf (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:55:35 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:64061 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757219AbbCDTze (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:55:34 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99FB3C4CA; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:55:33 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=Hv8Unq8JXIEUbcgPzPUArIrwDBM=; b=PKN/rW XhmDEI67/29IJpWhcN+Fz9w+CFoxjOEQEgEn+JsxK4JQpfSRJSP1I8PrQIfzLy6n D+QxIxuEuEAV/nJF6i1WY+2y4iDuJsPf7GXeNt/G7uAF4qfY+SG3HnBM/m5nlMWr SOMTI/htiEZJXSdnkv/fbUnwuwBwlMcuF0Gf8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=rU0JNTA3em36hY1oMbcN9xnSt7RGT1Yh BTmBOZNIyHmmYgLM5AmYlOP99Gwzn8zX1sOI+dOodF7zvjmyNz5UyNZ0FUKW0jFi MXuntLKO4vYI1VjeqMs9r5w3G35fBYsKAVNOMAfqF35Bwe5/hVuiei7IiEcOW9xZ AFMB94H/2Mk= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F21B3C4C3; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:55:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46E903C4BC; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:55:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:56:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6A61653C-C2A8-11E4-9E56-29999F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy writes: > 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 ;-). What is this? Matt and Jeff's comedy hour? You two made me laugh hard ;-)