From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: native-git-svn: A Summer of Code 2010 proposal Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:04:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20100320210406.GA29899@progeny.tock> References: <32541b131003191132y119037f8rae598d0037786703@mail.gmail.com> <32541b131003191430ld0eaa9cw1d2aac08cff15682@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Avery Pennarun , Sverre Rabbelier , Git Mailing List To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 20 22:03:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt5pE-0004Kv-Ve for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:03:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751819Ab0CTVDM (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:12 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:49845 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751273Ab0CTVDL (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:11 -0400 Received: by gwaa18 with SMTP id a18so349010gwa.19 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:03:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=4IORmMddq63wOvbQrVpay575+GxwB4jQhW0haNiQ2iA=; b=DmJJDKdjFGApVTp2ueiyhWdkM507xKvGdTVbDL2EkxjJCo3W1g00mKLh+kA74DM4h5 GWMyu69BBQ40dlaiLn8U9K/e0l/TuVJhEErZxWza3AA4eSkKcr6ZktVL0hmqyVBg0gpj 1MZVldOg/ya/+w0MVtVe/Qz083B3EaTF945qM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=SmD0hsUuWTExJo2/qhrSHua8FZ33Xg/Csi2D42sKpq3iZ9OfvRmVsNHOxNJctW8I+w sbCXQS31awy69Bed0FIqUgQe8yx4Iuqd2Tu/T//oO8Qwd/P23Qr0y4wR/RwEXtZe9LhE FWuOE0iD4D8r9RW2rcKQRIkfVlJp7X9hp2dRk= Received: by 10.100.50.12 with SMTP id x12mr11532183anx.217.1269118990640; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from progeny.tock (c-98-212-3-231.hsd1.il.comcast.net [98.212.3.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm1124874iwn.8.2010.03.20.14.03.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > I just prepared another revision of my proposal- I've tried to be > clearer about the objective, and included a timeline this time. Very nice. Thanks! > == Timeline == The one thing I worry about is that you are proposing to wait a while before submitting your changes upstream. I would suggest pushing whatever pieces work to contrib/ early on to get more feedback from reviewers and testers. (I am saying this selfishly, as a potential tester.) > July 10 - July 16: Scrub code and write documentation for mid-term > evaluations. Commit changes to the remote helper to upstream. Try to > get the other changes into `next`. In particular, this seems like very little time to get the code into shape for git.git. Hope that helps. Cheers, Jonathan