Re: Welcome to Git's GSoC 2008!

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 26, 2008, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20080426172945.GD29771@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3d4odq3w1.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have found three another Git-related Google Summer of Code 2008
> projects by other organizations:
> 
>     Git plugin for Anjuta IDE  (GNOME)

This project was new to me; prior to your message I did not know about it. Thanks.

>     KDevelop DVCS support      (KDE)

I contacted this student/mentor pair and offered them our mailing list address if they have questions. Apparently the project is trying to create some common DVCS abstractions but wants to use Git as the first supported tool.

>     Git# implementation        (Mono Project)

I was talking to one of the two students on #git the other day. Robin and I both think they are probably better off just taking jgit and compiling it with ikvm so it runs on the Mono CLR. From there they can build their interface in C#. Excluding the copyright header in every source file, jgit is about 24,300 lines of code right now. That's a lot to write in a summer, especially if you don't know Git as well as say I do.

There is some concern from people who are close to the summer of code program that two students working on the same project this summer may result in one's success being dependent upon the other's success. This sort of dependency is not permitted under the Summer of Code rules, as it can be quite unfair to an otherwise successful student.

It will be interesting to see how everyone's project turns out at the end of the summer.

-- 
Shawn.