Re: web-based client for Git, was Re: GSoC 2010

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>]

Hello,

Let me suggest Wt ( http://webtoolkit.eu ) for the web development.

It's C++ and GPLv2, therefore he may be able to directly use libgit2
or copy&paste source code from git. In fact, one of the examples Wt
includes in the source tarball is a git viewer:
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/examples/gitmodel/gitview.wt
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt#/src/gitmodel

In addition to that, if someone is interested in contributing to
libQtGit ( http://gitorious.org/libqtgit ) as his/her GSoC, I'd be
more than happy to accept contributors. API is done for the most used
commands but is lacking implementation (read: append to a QStringList
the parameters I added to the comments for the Q_ENUMS, then invoke
QProcess and parse output). Some important commands which have not
been translated to the libQtGit API are 'dif', 'log' and 'submodules'.
Some more information on libQtGit here: http://www.elpauer.org/?p=419

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Pavan,
>
> [culling the Cc: list to the most likely interested parties]
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:
>
>>   I am Pavan Kumar, a computer science student from Indian Institute of
>> Technology, Madras. I would like to propose a new project for git GSoC
>> 2010. I am new to git development community but i would like to start
>> contributing to it by participating as GSoC student to develop a GUI
>> client for git usage. Basically it will be a web client that can be
>> accessed from other computers.
>
> This is great stuff. As you know, the ideas page is really only about
> giving the students ideas what type of projects we'd like to see. But it
> is always better to have a project with your heart and soul behind it.
>
> Provided that we get accepted, you will have time to put up an application
> for this project between March 29 and April 9, according to the timeline:
>
> http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#timeline
>
> But I think you wanted to hear some feedback to your idea. So here goes my
> feedback:
>
> - It is a very interesting idea. I already know a few users who would be
>  happy to use it.
>
> - It is good that you mention the preferred programming language... While
>  I got used to Python, I am by far not good enough to mentor :-)
>
> - There is little chance that this project will become a core part of Git,
>  as it is too far outside of the original focus of it, namely allowing
>  developers to version-control their source code they have in a local
>  directory.
>
> That latter point does not say that your project is not worth it, though!
> As I said, I think it would be very useful to have.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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