Re: GSoC idea: allow "git rebase --interactive" todo lines to take options

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 11, 2014, 01:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20140311013749.GA12033@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <53109748.3090507@alum.mit.edu>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:03:52PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

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> > I'm not sure whether it is a good idea or not. But I think it is looking
> > decreasingly like a good GSoC project.
> 
> I guess I misread the sentiment of the mailing list, because I merged
> this idea into the list about two hours ago.

Yeesh, sorry to be so slow on the reply to this. It floated to the bottom of my "to respond" list.

> But if you think that even the proposal's simpler sub-ideas are
> controversial, then let me know and I will delete the idea from the list
> again.  I don't want a GSoC student to have to fight battles of my own
> creation :-)

I'd say keep it at this point. I think there _are_ some good ideas here, and part of a project is figuring out what is good. And part of the role of the mentor is applying some taste. There are probably students who would be a good fit, and students who would not. That is true for just about every project, of course, but I think this one is just a little trickier than some.

-Peff