Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13)

From: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner2.6.31@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2013, 09:12 UTC
Message-ID: <453931856.Va6j4WpQCl@flomedio>
In-Reply-To: <20130218174239.GB22832@sigill.intra.peff.net>

[corrected David Barr's address] On Monday 18 February 2013 12:42:39 Jeff King wrote:

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> And I do not want to blame the students here (some of whom are on the cc
> list  ). They are certainly under no obligation to stick around after
> GSoC ends, and I know they have many demands on their time. But I am
> also thinking about what Git wants to get out of GSoC (and to my mind,
> the most important thing is contributors).

Just a little comment from another student: Last year i worked on the 'remote helper for svn'. My official mentor was David Barr, but I had most interaction with Jonathan Nieder.

>From my point of view I wouldn't say the project was a fail. It was harder

than I originally thought, yes. That happens. But we have a remote helper in master now, although its far from complete and it's development is quite stalled. (remote-testsvn)

About sticking around: As you can see I read the list (I was not on CC), but not very regularly, I admit. Anyways, I'd respond to mails in CC or on IRC.

During the summer I believe I learned git's development process quite well. I rerolled my main patch series 8 times until 19th of September, which is well beyond GSOC deadline. I tried to get it finished before concentrating on my studies again.

If I would now continue to contribute, it would be a completely new topic (like branch mapping) and take a lot of time that I don't have during the year, where I have to push my studies forward. For a student one aspect of GSOC is also quite important: It is a cool and demanding summer job during the holidays, but it has to ramp down when the new semester starts.

Anyways I think GSOC is a great idea and I enjoyed contributing to git a lot, would immediatly do it again. Keep it goin'! Thanks.

Florian