From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:50:39 GMT Subject: Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions Message-ID: <20140213085039.GA29152@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > > Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish. > > Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely > too small for a GSoC project. But that could be a part of it. I'm not > sure how google welcomes GSoC projects made of multiple small tasks, but > my experience with students is that it's much better than a single (too) > big task, and I think that was the general feeling on this list when we > discussed it last year. I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting experiment. I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And bonus points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the ramp-up time from one for another. -Peff