Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-04-21 Thread Andrew Ardill
Congrats everyone who was successful in being picked for this year's GSoC. Fabian with Line options for git rebase --interactive [0] Brian Gesiak with Unify and Refactor Temporary File Handling [1] Tanay Abhra with Git configuration API improvements [2] I look forward to seeing how you go! [0]

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-04-21 Thread Brian Gesiak
Thank you! I'm very excited to be participating in this year's GSoC. Google recommends that students use the next few weeks to get to know their mentors, read documentation, and get up to speed to begin working on their projects. Students have also received instructions on submitting tax forms

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-27 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: Sounds good. I suggest we make your blob a paragraph before the list of bullet points rather than part of the list. Please suggest some TBD* then I'll add it to the text. Would we also fill in X with the name of the actual student involved in

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 02/27/2014 08:19 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: Sounds good. I suggest we make your blob a paragraph before the list of bullet points rather than part of the list. Please suggest some TBD* then I'll add it to the text. Would we also fill in X

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-27 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: On 02/27/2014 08:19 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: Sounds good. I suggest we make your blob a paragraph before the list of bullet points rather than part of the list. Please suggest some TBD* then I'll

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 06:15:28PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: We didn't discuss earlier whether we would have any specific requirements for students during the proposal period (e.g., having a patch accepted). It would be good to put together rules (or barring any specific

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 02/26/2014 11:23 AM, Jeff King wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 06:15:28PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: Requiring students to submit a reasonable patch and follow up on review comments seems like it would be a good way to filter out non-serious students. (I hesitate to require that the

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:41:21AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: Yes, though I think it makes sense to put them on a separate page. We should probably write up some notes for students, too: how to get in touch with us, what do we expect of them in the pre-proposal period, what would we

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Git has been accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code. Student proposals will start coming in on March 22. In the meantime students will be reading our Ideas page[1] and enquiring about the

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:25:36PM +0100, Vicent Martí wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Since time is short, I already started on this. I wrote a first draft of an introduction for the students. I also started looking for

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Vicent Martí
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Since time is short, I already started on this. I wrote a first draft of an introduction for the students. I also started looking for microprojects. I started going through our source files alphabetically, and

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Vicent Martí
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Duy Nguyen pclo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Git has been accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code. Student proposals will start coming in on March 22. In the meantime

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:24:13PM +0100, Vicent Martí wrote: One thing I noticed after tg/index-v4-format is both libgit2 and jgit do not seem to support index v4. So we could add index v4 support on libgit2 to the idea page. It's a relatively small task though once you get a hang on

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:24:13PM +0100, Vicent Martí wrote: One thing I noticed after tg/index-v4-format is both libgit2 and jgit do not seem to support index v4. So we could add index v4 support on libgit2 to the idea page.

Re: Git in GSoC 2014 Suggestion: core.filemode always false for cygwin

2014-02-26 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2014-02-25 16.41, Jeff King wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Git has been accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code. I'm not sure if this is the right way to propose mini projects, but in case the answer is not no, may I suggest one: Motivation, the problem: Since commit

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: See my branch on GitHub [1] or read the appended text below. Very nice. ## Introduction It is strongly recommended that students who want to apply to the Git project for the Summer of Code 2014 should submit a small code-related patch to the

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 02/26/2014 08:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: See my branch on GitHub [1] or read the appended text below. Very nice. ## Introduction It is strongly recommended that students who want to apply to the Git project for the Summer of Code 2014

Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Jeff King
I'm pleased to announce that Git has been accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code. Student proposals will start coming in on March 22. In the meantime students will be reading our Ideas page[1] and enquiring about the program on the mailing list and on irc. There are many ways that existing

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Dmitry S. Dolzhenko
Hi. I was just going to write an email about that I would like to participate in GSoC and contribute to Git project. I don't have wide experience in C programming, but I could be start as a janitor. I found several tasks here https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor. For example

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 02/25/2014 04:41 PM, Jeff King wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Git has been accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code. Cool! Thanks to Peff and Thomas and Vicent and whomever else was involved in getting our application done! For those who don't know, the application covers both