Re: [GSoC] What is status of Git's Google Summer of Code 2008 projects?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 21, 2008, 03:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20080721032203.GB2275@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200807210029.31543.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. GitTorrent
>  
> Student: Joshua Roys
> Mentor: Sam Vilain

...

> There is some activity there... but no summary of it anywhere I could 
> find. (I wonder if this was the project Johannes and Shawn were talking 
> about of "going dark" in GSoC 2008 podcast 018...)

Yes, this is the project I referred to in the podcast about going dark.

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> 4. Eclipse plugin push support
>  
> Student: Marek Zawirski
> Mentor: Shawn O. Pearce
> 
> [...] Marek and I simply decided that protocol support was more
> important than really tight network transport at this point in time.

Correction, the "I" in "Marek and I" isn't Jakub, its Shawn. This is just an editing mistake due to copy and paste from earlier thread. Apparently my original paragraph here was already a nice summary of the projects decisions thus far.

I'm likely to be offline much of the rest of this week (I got lucky and found an open access point just now) but Marek is actively working on user interface for push support, and I think if he finds the time is considering adding delta generation. That will be a lot more time consuming as I think he needs to go back to original academic papers to learn an LCS algorithm and then implement that.

Copyright and licenses around libxdiff and delta-diff.c won't allow us to directly port the diff code to Java and our BSD license. No, I don't want to start a BSD-GPL license war. Our decision to go BSD in jgit may be a thorn in our side in areas such as this, but it is probably better for our long-term goals of working more directly with the Eclipse Foundation and perhaps also the NetBeans folks.

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> SUMMARY:
> ========
> From those projects, "git-merge builtin" did what it was meant to do 
> already.  "Eclipse plugin push support" and "git-statistics" did 
> minimum what it was meant to do already, and it looks like it would be 
> finished before August 11.  "Gitweb caching" is after first round of 
> patches, "git-sequencer" looks like already done; I don't know what is 
> the state of "GitTorrent" project.
> 
> Please correct any mistakes in this summary / writeup.  Thanks in 
> advance.

I think this is a pretty good summary. I want to go through the mid-term evaluations and summarize those for the mailing list but I have not had a chance to do that yet. With network being spotty for the rest of this week it probably won't happen until the weekend.

I think the quick summary is our students and our mentors think their projects are going well. Jakub's summary above suggests very much the same thing. Its hard to claim a GSoC project isn't meeting its goals when the code is already merged, or is at least under active patch review. ;-)

-- 
Shawn.