Re: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:21:20PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > 
> > > > I am wondering if we heard from libgit2 folks if they want us
> > > > to
> > > > host them (or they want to participate in GSoC at all).
> > > 
> > > The libgit2 mention is left from previous versions of this page.
> > > I left
> > > a message on their IRC channel asking to join this thread if
> > > people were
> > > interested (I don't know the libgit2 community really well, and I
> > > didn't
> > > find a mailing-list to Cc here). 
> > > 
> > > I did not hear anything from them. We should probably remove the
> > > mention
> > > of libgit2. Or, if anyone receiving this message is interested in
> > > having
> > > libgit2 participate, or knows anyone who may be, speak now.
> > 
> > I think they do a lot of their communication via GitHub issues.
> > I've
> > cc'd Carlos, the maintainer, who can ping the rest of the community
> > as
> > appropriate.
> > 
> > I don't think we did a libgit2 project last year, and included the
> > libgit2 references mainly so that we would not drop them with zero
> > warning.
> 
> Understandable.  I do not mind seeing us hosting them if that is
> what they want, but the candidate selection and mentor assignment
> between two more-or-less independent projects would not work very
> well unless there is _some_ degree of coordination ;-)