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

> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 04:57 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>> 1. GitTorrent
>>  
>> Student: Joshua Roys
>> Mentor: Sam Vilain
>> 
>> If I remember correctly at midterm it was deemed to be somewhat late;
>> metainfo was done, tracker was in works, some core infrastructure
>> and beginnings of peer to peer:
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git.gittorrent/1

>> Status: I have no idea how close GitTorrent is to completion (where by 
>> completion I mean ready, tested and benchmarked code running e.g. on 
>> kernel.org).  I'm not sure if it is meant to be incorporated in git, 
>> even in contrib, or remain separate like StGIT, TopGit or jgit.
> 
> The scope outlined in the GitTorrent proposal was a little bit more of a
> research project; being ready for production use on kernel.org or having
> code ready to merge to git was not directly a deliverable.
> 
> The approved idea at the outset of *this* project was to try out the RFC
> protocol design as it stands, iron out the weaknesses and see how it
> performs. [...]