Re: Google Summer of Code 2012... and git wiki

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 12:27:40AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Google Summer of Code 2012 has started.  The Git Development Community 
> has time till March 9 to submit organization application.
> 
> The problem (beside finding volunteer for the position of GSoC 
> administrator) is that both GSoC application and ideas for GSoC 
> projects were hosted on Git Wiki... but Git Wiki is still only parially 
> functional, available only as static pages under changed URLs.

I can be GSoC administrator again if nobody else wants to do it (and
probably Shawn as co-admin again). On my todo list for tonight is
actually starting and posting a draft application.

I'm perfectly happy if somebody else wants to take over the position.
It's mostly boring, and aside from coordinating the proposal ranking
process, not even all that much work (the real work is done by the
mentors).

> I guess we can get by without having fully functional wiki for creating 
> application (if we decide to apply), but it would need a forum to send 
> ideas for GSoC projects and some place to publish them.  Editable wiki 
> can work as both, though git mailing list and some static page (perhaps 
> home pages for git project on GitHub?) could also work.

My plan was to just solicit feedback from the mailing list. Though I
think I may throw the work into a repo or even a GitHub wiki to make
small edits simpler for people who want to contribute. If last year is
any indication, about 3-4 people will come up with comments. So just
taking patches or incorporating their suggestions manually would
probably be acceptable.

> I don't know what are ETA on bringing Git Wiki fully up, but I doubt it 
> would be possible at http://git.wiki.kernel.org -- it is more than two 
> months since the event and wiki is not functional yet.  Perhaps it 
> could be hosted at git-scm.com somewhere -  but it really should be 
> true wiki, editable without need to use git.

FWIW, I really like the GitHub wikis, because they are backed by git. So
you can choose whether to use the web interface or not. And you can
write in a variety of markup languages, including mediawiki, though when
I tried importing the old git wiki many moons ago, I noticed that the
formatting of many of the pages was not quite right.

-Peff