Re: [git wiki PATCH] Teaching "--3way" to "git apply"

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Mar 5, 2012, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID: <87vcmjxyjh.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20120305053343.GA25373@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I don't think there is any commitment to mentor, or for us to even do a
> project that is on the list. The intent of the idea list is to get
> students thinking about their proposals, and hopefully discussing and
> exploring the ideas with us on the list. It is only when it comes time
> to read and rank student proposals that we make a commitment to an idea.
>
>> But I think I should mention this, as it is a reasonable bite-size task
>> for a student project that is to be completed inside one release cycle.
>
> I actually think it may be a little bit too small for a whole summer
> project. But I pushed it to the wiki for the reasons above; this is just
> an ideas page, not a solid list of proposals.

Perhaps we should spell this out in the leading text? I was going to send a patch, but got stuck rewording at

  Note that these are ideas, not project proposals.  As stated, they may
  not be of the right difficulty or size to be solved within one Summer
  of Code.

Maybe you can find a nicer way to write the "as stated" (I want it to say "in the form they currently have") and put that before the first title.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch