Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Christian Couder writes: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> What I gathered from the discussion so far is that everybody agrees >> that our mentoring has been suboptimal in various ways (not enough >> encouragement to engage with the community early, working in the >>

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Christian Couder
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christian Couder writes: > >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Jeff King wrote: >>> There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google Summer of Code this year[1]. >> >> I think we

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > It is preferrable if the decision were accompanied with a concrete > plan for us to prepare our mentoring capability better (if we want > to participate in future GSoC, that is), but I think it is a > separate issue, and I suspect t

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Christian Couder writes: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Jeff King wrote: >> >>> There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google >>> Summer of Code this year[1]. > > I think we should do it. > > It looks strange to me to say that students are

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Jeff King wrote: > There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google > Summer of Code this year[1]. Take only one or two students and get the entire community involved in learning from the GSoC experience, so we can do a bigger one next year. -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-27 Thread Christian Couder
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > >> There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google >> Summer of Code this year[1]. I think we should do it. It looks strange to me to say that students are great and at the same time that we sho

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jeff King wrote: > There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google > Summer of Code this year[1]. [...] > In my opinion, a lot of the issues come down to project selection; Let me throw in some other issues. :) * I think the git project has been very disorganized in vet

Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-27 Thread Jeff King
There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google Summer of Code this year[1]. Some people seemed in favor, and some not. The deadline for git to apply to GSoC is March 29 (this Friday) at 19:00 UTC. I am willing to act as the admin again if list consensus is that we should