From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2009 Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:55:50 +1300 Message-ID: <1231401350.6067.4.camel@maia.lan> References: <20090107183033.GB10790@spearce.org> <81b0412b0901071512k64a7d5e2u2c602b903f5233d3@mail.gmail.com> <20090107231431.GC10790@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 08 08:57:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LKpli-0002gD-Vw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:57:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753339AbZAHH4I (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:56:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753290AbZAHH4F (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:56:05 -0500 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:50168 "EHLO mail.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753137AbZAHH4E (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:56:04 -0500 Received: by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 790C921D5F1; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:56:01 +1300 (NZDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mail.musashi.utsl.gen.nz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [192.168.69.233] (203-97-235-49.cable.telstraclear.net [203.97.235.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9765521D1E8; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:55:56 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.