Re: Gsoc 16

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
Date: Mar 17, 2016, 13:00 UTC
Message-ID: <1458219633.2031.7.camel@dwim.me>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79ka9kKm69wdM+KhiTi8im72mMBmxY6VDuNJf6wh1baFWJw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 14:33 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Open Source projects run because of people who contribute in their
> > free time (mainly). It might not be possible for someone to be
> > active
> > all times Sometimes it may take around 2-3 days. Give it a little
> > more
> > time.
> Adding to that: Not everybody reads the whole list.
> The first mail you sent, was deep down in the thread for rewriting
> rebase --interactive in C instead of shell. The libgit2 maintainer
> (Carlos)
> is highly unlikely to read that as it doesn't affect libgit2.
> 
> Posting as a separate thread here increases the chance for him to
> spot this
> message.
> 
> Usually you'd cc the people you're addressing as that has highest
> chance that
> the relevant people see your message. (I cc'd Carlos in this message,
> no need
> to resend a third time from you.)

Thanks for the CC. Indeed I generally only look at the git list sporadically and superficially since most discussions are about the tool part of git, which doesn't affect the underlying system.

Saurabh, libgit2 development happens on the GitHub repository, so if you want to contribute, open a pull request there and we'll review the contributions when we can.

Cheers,
   cmn