Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, Andreas Ericsson a écrit :
> Just chiming in that I can probably help mentoring whoever goes
> with libgit2. I do not have enough spare time for me to promise
> that I can be there as much as I think is necessary and proper,
> but I'll gladly help out.
>
> On a side-note, I think all mentors should urge the students in
> the strongest possible terms to deliver their work to git@vger
> as soon as possible. 

I agree, but I think there is also a merge problem. I mean we should also 
perhaps urge students to get what they have done merged as soon as possible 
even if it means that they rework 5 or 10 time the code instead of 
developing features according to the schedule.

But unfortunately even something merged into next can be removed afterwards, 
so it's really difficult, because big features cannot for obvious reasons 
be merged into master and the git release cycle doesn't always go along 
well with the GSoC schedule.

> From previous years experience, successful 
> projects are those that the list sees code from within a week
> or two after the project's started, while the projects that are
> kept in the dark rarely (if ever?) finish successfully.

I don't think things are so simple.

Regards,
Christian.