Re: Git in GSoC 2014

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:25:36PM +0100, Vicent Martí wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > Since time is short, I already started on this.  I wrote a first draft
> > of an introduction for the students.  I also started looking for
> > microprojects.  I started going through our source files alphabetically,
> > and have already found six suggestions by "bundle.c", so I don't think
> > there will be a problem finding enough tiny things to do.
> 
> Note that for projects that are either libgit2-centric or mix Core Git
> and libgit2, it would be worth it to the students to submit a pull
> request on libgit2 (or ideally, on both projects, although that's
> going to be hard) in order to make themselves familiar with the code
> base.

Yeah, that makes sense. I think if students are thinking primarily about
one of the libgit2 projects, they should focus on interacting with that
community. Interacting with the mailing list is good, too, but I don't
see a need to do a patch for both.

Can you come up with a short list of micro-projects for libgit2, similar
to what Michael did for Git?

-Peff