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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:50:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140213085039.GA29152@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqr47gin5x.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> > Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish.
> 
> Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely
> too small for a GSoC project. But that could be a part of it. I'm not
> sure how google welcomes GSoC projects made of multiple small tasks, but
> my experience with students is that it's much better than a single (too)
> big task, and I think that was the general feeling on this list when we
> discussed it last year.

I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project
made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting
experiment.  I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And bonus
points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the ramp-up
time from one for another.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-05 22:57 [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions Jeff King
2014-02-06  9:10 ` Christian Couder
2014-02-06  9:51   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-13  8:50     ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-02-13  9:28       ` Christian Couder
2014-02-13  9:55         ` David Kastrup
2014-02-08 18:43 ` Thomas Rast
2014-02-08 18:55   ` Jeff King
2014-02-08 19:03 ` Thomas Rast
2014-02-16 14:42   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-16 15:29     ` Thomas Rast
2014-02-11 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-11 19:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-13  8:37     ` Jeff King
2014-02-13  8:41   ` Jeff King

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