From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2009 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:20:25 +0100 Message-ID: <200901121420.25420.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> References: <20090107183033.GB10790@spearce.org> <496B2690.2010902@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 12 14:21:11 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 1LMMj6-0001Sq-1t for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:21:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751804AbZALNTo convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:19:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751778AbZALNTo (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:19:44 -0500 Received: from smtp1-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.1]:58768 "EHLO smtp1-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751523AbZALNTn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:19:43 -0500 Received: from smtp1-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C310940130; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:19:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from bureau.boubyland (gre92-7-82-243-130-161.fbx.proxad.net [82.243.130.161]) by smtp1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9719B940162; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:19:33 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <496B2690.2010902@op5.se> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, Andreas Ericsson a =E9crit : > 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.=20 I agree, but I think there is also a merge problem. I mean we should al= so=20 perhaps urge students to get what they have done merged as soon as poss= ible=20 even if it means that they rework 5 or 10 time the code instead of=20 developing features according to the schedule. But unfortunately even something merged into next can be removed afterw= ards,=20 so it's really difficult, because big features cannot for obvious reaso= ns=20 be merged into master and the git release cycle doesn't always go along= =20 well with the GSoC schedule. > From previous years experience, successful=20 > 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.