From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2009
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:55:50 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231401350.6067.4.camel@maia.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901080024170.7496@intel-tinevez-2-302>
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 00:30 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> However, from what Sam said at the GitTogether, it might be a much better
> idea to look at the existing code as a fact-finding experiment, scrap it
> (excluding the experience), and start modifying git-daemon.
>
> AFAICT Sam has a pretty clear idea how to go about it, and staying with C
> should make it much easier for other people to comment.
>
> Note that there has been a flurry of emails on the gittorrent list a few
> weeks back, where somebody challenged the approach Sam wants to take,
> saying that BitTorrent has some very nice features that are absolutely
> necessary, such as its pretty awkward custom encoding.
>
> But AFAICT Sam did a pretty good job at dispelling all of the objections.
Yes, this is accurate as I know it. I've renamed and reworded the
heading under the SoC2009Ideas page to point to the most current design.
It's all in a "just add JFDI" point right now I think ;-).
Sam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-07 18:30 Google Summer of Code 2009 Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-07 23:11 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-07 23:12 ` Alex Riesen
2009-01-07 23:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-07 23:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 23:40 ` Alex Riesen
2009-01-08 7:55 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2009-01-10 19:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-10 19:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-12 13:01 ` Christian Couder
2009-01-14 22:01 ` Stephan Beyer
2009-01-12 11:16 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-01-12 13:20 ` Christian Couder
2009-01-12 15:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-12 13:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-12 15:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-12 17:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-12 17:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-12 15:37 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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