From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Achleitner Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:12:18 +0100 Message-ID: <453931856.Va6j4WpQCl@flomedio> References: <87ehgd1qq2.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> <20130218174239.GB22832@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Jeff King , Thomas Rast , Shawn Pearce , Jakub Narebski , Christian Couder , Pat Thoyts , Paul Mackerras , Carlos =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Nieto , Thomas Gummerer , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Jens Lehmann , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , David Barr To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 25 11:24:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U9vEU-0004v0-F3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:24:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758627Ab3BYKYE (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:24:04 -0500 Received: from mailrelay.tu-graz.ac.at ([129.27.2.202]:58506 "EHLO mailrelay.tugraz.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758032Ab3BYKYD (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:24:03 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 3742 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:24:02 EST Received: from flomedio.localnet (91-115-84-62.adsl.highway.telekom.at [91.115.84.62]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailrelay2.tugraz.at (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r1P9COH1024572 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:12:26 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/4.9.4 (Linux/3.5.0-24-generic; KDE/4.9.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130218174239.GB22832@sigill.intra.peff.net> X-TUG-Backscatter-control: qyH/vN2riZ/masrHmZoJqQ X-Spam-Scanner: SpamAssassin 3.003000 X-Spam-Score-relay: 0.6 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.70 on 129.27.10.19 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: [corrected David Barr's address] On Monday 18 February 2013 12:42:39 Jeff King wrote: > And I do not want to blame the students here (some of whom are on the cc > list ). They are certainly under no obligation to stick around after > GSoC ends, and I know they have many demands on their time. But I am > also thinking about what Git wants to get out of GSoC (and to my mind, > the most important thing is contributors). Just a little comment from another student: Last year i worked on the 'remote helper for svn'. My official mentor was David Barr, but I had most interaction with Jonathan Nieder. >>From my point of view I wouldn't say the project was a fail. It was harder than I originally thought, yes. That happens. But we have a remote helper in master now, although its far from complete and it's development is quite stalled. (remote-testsvn) About sticking around: As you can see I read the list (I was not on CC), but not very regularly, I admit. Anyways, I'd respond to mails in CC or on IRC. During the summer I believe I learned git's development process quite well. I rerolled my main patch series 8 times until 19th of September, which is well beyond GSOC deadline. I tried to get it finished before concentrating on my studies again. If I would now continue to contribute, it would be a completely new topic (like branch mapping) and take a lot of time that I don't have during the year, where I have to push my studies forward. For a student one aspect of GSOC is also quite important: It is a cool and demanding summer job during the holidays, but it has to ramp down when the new semester starts. Anyways I think GSOC is a great idea and I enjoyed contributing to git a lot, would immediatly do it again. Keep it goin'! Thanks. Florian