Re: Git in GSoC 2014

From: Vicent Martí <tanoku@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 26, 2014, 11:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFFjANRqKqq_f9SCR4vP3YKUpfk1J2RQdB9G4gnY2OcZivzhXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> I'm pleased to announce that Git has been accepted to this year's Google
>> Summer of Code.
>>
>> Student proposals will start coming in on March 22. In the meantime
>> students will be reading our Ideas page[1] and enquiring about the
>> program on the mailing list and on irc. There are many ways that
>> existing git developers can help:
>>
>>   - continue to add to and polish the Ideas page
>
> One thing I noticed after tg/index-v4-format is both libgit2 and jgit
> do not seem to support index v4. So we could add "index v4 support on
> libgit2" to the idea page. It's a relatively small task though once
> you get a hang on index format.

That sounds like a nice task for the Summer of Code too, specially with the current effort to make Index v4 more visible in Core Git.

I wonder if anybody from JGit would also be interested on mentoring for the equivalent task (index v4 on JGit). I've CC'ed Shawn Pearce.