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Re: [GSoC] Git projects for Google Summer of Code 2008 final evaluation

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MZMarek Zawirski <marek.zawirski@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2008, 17:46 UTC
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Regarding...
> 4. Eclipse plugin push support
>
> Student: Marek Zawirski
> Mentor: Shawn O. Pearce
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> So students and mentors, please write what do you think current status 
> of project is: is it done, is it ready, is it perhaps already merged 
> in, or can be merged in at any time.  Please write also what wasn't 
> done, or what should be done different way (hindsight and all that).

Project is done, it's merged to master of egit, as Shawn pointed. I also consider it successful, for sake of my experience too!

I was hoping to do some optional task after push GUI (2nd part of GSoC), but instead I was designing/polishing the new GUI and existing clone wizard. Created code was also base for later added (after GSoC) fetch GUI.

The downside is that there was not enough time for even starting stuff like binary delta (re)implementation. This became huge task, as there are serious libxdiff related license-issues. So it probably needs to be implemented from scratch basing on existing research and pack file format knowledge, but not the code.

> Students, could you please tell us if you plan to work on git further, 
> and in what range (how much time can you get to work on git).

I enjoyed coding here, so I except to keep on working on egit. As you may see (looking on my activity on the list) I'm pretty busy last time - doing overdue exams, getting credits or having vacations (that's especially hard labor...). So I won't work on egit next weeks for sure. Later, I'm back to university again, so my activity may vary/be limited during some periods. But I except to take some missing feature and work on that in free time.

> What do you think about git development community?

Folks that I don't know how spend that much time on Git producing portions of nice code...

Actually, I learned here what community in open source projects means. Even if Git is not considered user-friendly, its community definitely is.

> What have you learned from participating in GSoC?

Among other things, I learned here using Git ;), doing development in more open source way (e.g. where patches review/comments is natural process), and somewhat doing development of product that is intended to be highly reusable and effective.

(...)
> Thank you all very much for your work on Git projects on this Google 
> Summer of Code.
Thanks too!
-- 
Marek Zawirski [zawir]
marek.zawirski@gmail.com
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Message 8 of 12 in “[GSoC] Git projects for Google Summer of Code 2008 final evaluation”
  1. Jakub NarebskiSep 4, 2008
  2. Daniel BarkalowSep 4, 2008
  3. Joshua RoysSep 4, 2008
  4. Stephan BeyerSep 4, 2008
  5. Sverre RabbelierSep 4, 2008
  6. Miklos VajnaSep 4, 2008
  7. Shawn O. PearceSep 4, 2008
  8. Marek ZawirskiSep 8, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinSep 9, 2008
  10. Jakub NarebskiSep 15, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinSep 15, 2008
  12. Shawn O. PearceSep 15, 2008

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