From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Walker?= Subject: GSoC mentors for Git.pm Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:53:24 -0300 Message-ID: <4F78B234.3060901@andrewalker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 01 21:53:34 2012 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 1SEQqD-000258-OU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:53:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752807Ab2DATx2 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 15:53:28 -0400 Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:56516 "HELO oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752559Ab2DATx1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 15:53:27 -0400 Received: (qmail 1931 invoked by uid 0); 1 Apr 2012 19:53:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host245.hostmonster.com) (74.220.215.245) by oproxy8.bluehost.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2012 19:53:27 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=andrewalker.net; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Subject:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:Message-ID; bh=SLiFUytR8E+yMSRxeu593am3ZjWupXDXbAckep+/ZPk=; b=mnnSdDn3LyIa0Ee38I9qgYBJmNqQ6pZj8Q0sFLw/aFrEh8n+L5o/yxbnu/fYduEFn6qiMJk2PBBAPCKH8TJHJ3kX+Jqqb4qT2bLojKSjoCs4bwZr7+LaOlRrxX2HlR76; Received: from [187.104.134.84] (helo=[192.168.0.100]) by host245.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SEQq7-0001c4-3a for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:53:27 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 X-Identified-User: {2744:host245.hostmonster.com:picloadc:andrewalker.net} {sentby:smtp auth 187.104.134.84 authed with andre@andrewalker.net} Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, I was considering applying for GSoC this year, but for personal reasons= =20 I decided not to propose anything this year, and focus on some other=20 personal projects. Anyway, I was thinking about something that might=20 still help the Git organization this year, so I'd like to share the ide= a=20 with you, to see if it's not too crazy, and if it would be doable. In a previous mail, Jakub said one of the limitations for the number of= =20 accepted students is the number of available mentors. Well, for the=20 project I'm interested in, modernizing Git.pm, he is the suggested=20 mentor himself, and also for the gitweb one (adding a JS framework). Bu= t=20 if he is the only available mentor for both projects, and there are man= y=20 students interested in both of them, only one will be accepted, as he'l= l=20 probably be unable to mentor two students. Is that correct? So that=20 either "Javascript library in gitweb" is accepted, or "modernizing=20 Git.pm". (Of course, it seems one person can mentor two projects, but=20 that's not advised by Google, and Git would profit if there were at=20 least co-mentors for one of the projects.) I was thinking... if the problem is the lack of mentors, would it be=20 possible, for instance, for the Git.pm proposal, to ask people from the= =20 Perl community, like the ones who wrote Git modules on CPAN=20 (Git::Wrapper, Git::PurePerl, etc) to help out? Maybe they would have=20 different insights on what can be done in Git.pm, how it could be done=20 in a better way, etc. On the other hand, they would not make anything=20 the git community wouldn't approve, because the community would be=20 involved in every step. Do you think this is viable? Maybe there could=20 even be more than one mentor per student (last year I had two mentors=20 for GSoC), so that we could have one mentor who has a stronger knowledg= e=20 in the Perl language, and another who has a stronger knowledge in Git's= =20 internals, etc. If this would be helpful, I'd be willing to contact people to see=20 whether they'd like to candidate for being a Git mentor. Also, I'm=20 suggesting the Perl community because I know some of them, and it makes= =20 sense (at least in my head) for the project I was interested in. But=20 maybe this could be expanded to other proposals? If this was possible,=20 it could ease the burden for the current mentors, and get more projects= =20 accepted for git. Or maybe there are more people in this mailing list who would volunteer= =20 for the job? I contacted =C6var Bjarmason to see if he is interested, b= ut=20 maybe someone here would like too. Regards, Andr=E9