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: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:58:20 -0500 Message-ID: <20100321175820.GA26174@progeny.tock> References: <32541b131003191132y119037f8rae598d0037786703@mail.gmail.com> <32541b131003191430ld0eaa9cw1d2aac08cff15682@mail.gmail.com> <20100320210406.GA29899@progeny.tock> <20100321110807.GA24016@progeny.tock> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Avery Pennarun , Sverre Rabbelier , Git Mailing List , Daniel Barkalow , Christian Couder , Stephan Beyer To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 21 18:57:23 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 1NtPOr-00068e-SB for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:57:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751636Ab0CUR5R (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:57:17 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com ([209.85.210.182]:36022 "EHLO mail-yx0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751020Ab0CUR5Q (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:57:16 -0400 Received: by yxe12 with SMTP id 12so1422364yxe.33 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:57:15 -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=46Md9g09kHUiH5XA1y2+G9SHUlNeBkKfBp6NSOHpdmI=; b=ED6r6XBfBFREGFiZK7BqNFAXuJTo9oIPEESoXDSYjClIbyokMmOx+7v5O6A3Wo+O3O uT4abChLToOsWI7GJUztSa6R0MB4AWRKdfEr2mhh5xLkvem2icV087muNFeEBuX+3uuu cF1jfzIkTsSVOebpnJd6FHPXbz6NxdRCAjKbE= 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=e/pEGKudo2cHmv/cRhuqaa+EnvT6LIAWFPugcpvVWjiJGRE0b2OL2f/tNFC55gp0Of zEgh9vMD6jVgTYEHKSENXLMDKnW/OVON1wBqee52J67YlCqJWyqR6SPkgYyUaYqc6TxK 4jfu9fORSYX7LDKXTP6jvxbgZGkThC/gv7/iE= Received: by 10.151.89.31 with SMTP id r31mr4709577ybl.57.1269194235610; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:57:15 -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 21sm2819947iwn.15.2010.03.21.10.57.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:57:14 -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: Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Thanks for the elaborate explanation. The way I see it, there are two > extreme situations I must avoid. The first is being opaque for the > risk of not being able to integrate it into git.git at the end of the > summer term. The other extreme is worrying so much about the > integration of each little bit that the project keeps getting > detracted, and eventually loses focus. To strike a balance, I will > post progress reports to the mailing list (atleast) once a week, and > keep a public development branch for myself. Occasionally, it might > help to post patches for small components of the project with > unittests to get a wider test audience. Sounds great to me, too. It seems you understand the issues well. Cheers, Jonathan