From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schubert Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:48:07 +0100 Message-ID: <51252877.5000808@schu.io> References: <87ehgd1qq2.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> <20130218174239.GB22832@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Rast , git@vger.kernel.org, Shawn Pearce , Jakub Narebski , Christian Couder , Pat Thoyts , Paul Mackerras , =?UTF-8?B?Q2FybG9zIE1hcnTDrW4gTmlldG8=?= , Thomas Gummerer , David Michael Barr , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Jens Lehmann , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Vicent Marti To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 20 21:03:47 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 1U8FtH-0005WO-VT for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:03:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935180Ab3BTUDT (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:03:19 -0500 Received: from schu.io ([178.77.73.177]:41576 "EHLO lvps178-77-73-177.dedicated.hosteurope.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935054Ab3BTUDS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:03:18 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 556 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:03:18 EST Received: from [192.168.1.233] (f052158211.adsl.alicedsl.de [78.52.158.211]) by lvps178-77-73-177.dedicated.hosteurope.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5DFA214954003; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:53:59 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: <20130218174239.GB22832@sigill.intra.peff.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 02/18/2013 06:42 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > I will do it again, if people feel strongly about Git being a part of > it. However, I have gotten a little soured on the GSoC experience. Not > because of anything Google has done; it's a good idea, and I think they > do a fine of administering the program. But I have noticed that the work > that comes out of GSoC the last few years has quite often not been > merged, or not made a big impact in the codebase, and nor have the > participants necessarily stuck around. > > 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). Speaking of libgit2: Git provided the libgit2 project with a slot each of the last three GSOC. The contributions made by the former students (Disclaimer: one of them speaking) have been quite important for libgit2 and all three students are still involved. Each project was an important push towards building a new, feature complete Git library. Thank you! http://libgit2.github.com