Re: GSoC project mentors

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> I was trying to see who have been active recently to find GSoC
> mentor candidates by running:
> 
> 	$ git shortlog -s -n --since=4.months | head -n 20

You aren't alone; I did the same stupid thing last night.  Only
without the --since=4.months argument.  Which is the old calling
convention.  At least your little warning would have saved me.  ;-)

<plug>
We need GSoC project mentors!

Reading http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2007Ideas it appears as though
(with the exception of 2 projects that Martin Langhoff is interested
in, thanks Martin!) I am *the* GSoC mentor.  I really hoped that we
could get more community involvement than that.  Junio's "top 20"
is an interesting set of people, but there are still some very
interesting and qualified names in the top 65...

Please, look over the SoC2007Ideas list on the wiki and stick your
name next to a project or two that you have watched on the mailing
list, are interested in seeing get added to Git, and would like to
help out with this summer.

Being a GSoC mentor does have a time commitment.  You will need to
work with the student via email to help them find their way around
the Git source code, and to help them refine their changes such
that they are suitable for acceptance to the respective Git tree.

Remember, our goal here is to have a working enhancement that Junio
would be proud to merge!
</plug>

-- 
Shawn.