Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 07:55 UTC
Message-ID: <1231401350.6067.4.camel@maia.lan>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901080024170.7496@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 00:30 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> However, from what Sam said at the GitTogether, it might be a much better 
> idea to look at the existing code as a fact-finding experiment, scrap it 
> (excluding the experience), and start modifying git-daemon.
> 
> AFAICT Sam has a pretty clear idea how to go about it, and staying with C 
> should make it much easier for other people to comment.
> 
> Note that there has been a flurry of emails on the gittorrent list a few 
> weeks back, where somebody challenged the approach Sam wants to take, 
> saying that BitTorrent has some very nice features that are absolutely 
> necessary, such as its pretty awkward custom encoding.
> 
> But AFAICT Sam did a pretty good job at dispelling all of the objections.

Yes, this is accurate as I know it. I've renamed and reworded the heading under the SoC2009Ideas page to point to the most current design. It's all in a "just add JFDI" point right now I think ;-).

Sam.