From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chiyuan Zhang" Subject: Re: [GSoC2008]What's wrong with last years Gittorrent? Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:34:32 +0800 Message-ID: References: <20080324072434.GN8410@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 24 08:35:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdhDI-0007hr-8a for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:35:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752450AbYCXHee (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:34:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752735AbYCXHee (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:34:34 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.190]:23443 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751562AbYCXHed (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:34:33 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so1403425rvb.1 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:34:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=A5GhlHs4yZtN6I8PU6k0nBt1Iz76pwxKKmwA9X4jXvg=; b=qUl0FV1xbqHfGM4hfN50FcRJB5Ksc2rccz/c9EZnon/0aAlgDfWNMBzECmCUQ5awCOIuc7+jC78QXv8pj4PWdJUZg/pLBygcPxav/N3Iybzo6yh7pu+aFfGBT6IM9QDEso/nAzdhQ3K/OR83LSfLfdvFGOoDBNGSPOpxia6eB/c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XVOkhQxlNh1J35c5YXFi3hNp6wz8RDeh96/t4QH3fP/i61AQs+ZXaKPF2JzhcjwPn6SoRUV503Te+88Hhc5zy3DTKgMNcQqklcM6XI1d7npaslh7Yua9YXtLdKAgB8g7C0+k3JxtYB9Tq8nQ7mDmezqIAVI9kTwtjKamThGNNSg= Received: by 10.140.174.11 with SMTP id w11mr1954803rve.17.1206344072232; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.5.18 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:34:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080324072434.GN8410@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: OK! Thanks for this information. I think I should double check that I'm legal to work on this before trying to apply this. :p 2008/3/24, Shawn O. Pearce : > Chiyuan Zhang wrote: > > I'm planning to apply Google Summer of Code this year. I noticed > > on the git project page there's a gittorrent implementation. I'm > > interested in this. But later I found there was also a similar > > project (accepted) in last year's SoC: GitTorrent Server and Peer, > > written in Python. Unfortunately, the two links on that page aren't > > available any more. So I'm wondering what's the status of last > > year's GitTorrent? Is there something wrong with that? If any, what > > caused the problem and what's the differences between this year's > > and that one? > > > Last year's GitTorrent implementation never got off the ground. > The student who we accepted was unable to actually participate due > to legal problems, and we did not find out about it until too late > in the program to select a replacement student. > > So in short, there's nothing wrong with last year's GitTorrent, > as there was no last year's GitTorrent. Hence it is on the list > again for this year. :) > > -- > > Shawn. >