From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Walker?= Subject: Re: GSoC mentors for Git.pm Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:43:39 -0300 Message-ID: <4F78E82B.4080801@andrewalker.net> References: <4F78B234.3060901@andrewalker.net> <4F78D4F5.4020603@pileofstuff.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Andrew Sayers X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 02 01:43:54 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 1SEUR7-000583-8q for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:43:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753561Ab2DAXnq (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:43:46 -0400 Received: from oproxy9.bluehost.com ([69.89.24.6]:45047 "HELO oproxy9.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752753Ab2DAXnp (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:43:45 -0400 Received: (qmail 9885 invoked by uid 0); 1 Apr 2012 23:43:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host245.hostmonster.com) (74.220.215.245) by oproxy9.bluehost.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2012 23:43:45 -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:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:CC:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:Message-ID; bh=UG5Uhwjw3Z6Nqv506GXKW+KO5HzdVbAZmbLco7z7u18=; b=RJ91/kGpsHNr4omZU7vhZ7wIVrOsa3Ni60kfvSJqMNPb9G906nEFdeV1mv/0NrTBuXpBZNCzudC1GWQ/bVbGQ/fIH3g5L0WnAyEeuUBzPEPQLnX7C1bt3UK9wkSlBxWO; Received: from [189.79.200.72] (helo=[192.168.2.103]) by host245.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SEUQy-0001A0-GU; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:43:45 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4F78D4F5.4020603@pileofstuff.org> X-Identified-User: {2744:host245.hostmonster.com:picloadc:andrewalker.net} {sentby:smtp auth 189.79.200.72 authed with andre@andrewalker.net} Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 04/01/2012 07:21 PM, Andrew Sayers wrote: > I'd be interested in doing what I can to help, but I'm not in a position > to put myself up as a full mentor. The good news is that I've got > several years of Perl and JS experience under my belt, and am quite used > to finding where people are stuck and nudging them along. The bad news > is that I know next to nothing about git internals or about XS (which > I'd expect to feature heavily in a new Git.pm). I'm also settling in to > a new job, so can't give strong guarantees about availability - for > example, I'm pretty sure IRC access from work isn't going to happen, and > have no idea what the olympics will do to my commute in the summer. > > If Jakub needs some kind of teaching assistant to help with code review > and firming questions up then I'd be happy to help. But if it needs to > be someone who can infuse a strong vision for the end result then you're > better off looking elsewhere. Well, this sounds great, at least to me. Jakub will probably know better how and if you're fit as a mentor. From what I can tell, specially if there is more than one mentor for a project, you wouldn't have to spend more than 5 hours a week on it. Probably even less. And I think the Perl + JS experience is good enough for it. Maybe you'd be more fit for the JavaScript framework in gitweb project?