From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disclaimer about the number of slots.
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:55:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk2yw8rm4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq1tl5urfs.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:56:07 +0100")
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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 ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-04 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-04 7:19 [PATCH 1/2] Ask students to include a link to their microproject in their application Matthieu Moy
2015-03-04 7:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] Disclaimer about the number of slots Matthieu Moy
2015-03-04 7:51 ` Jeff King
2015-03-04 7:56 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-03-04 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-03-06 11:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-03-04 7:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] Ask students to include a link to their microproject in their application Jeff King
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