Re: Google Summer of Code 2012... and git wiki

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2012, 23:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP2yMaKw8dx+fsy2Kbh2XUORu+b7CiA+qzZDcK05zsv3m5-bww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201203020027.41016.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hey,

2012/3/1 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

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> Google Summer of Code 2012 has started.  The Git Development Community
> has time till March 9 to submit organization application.
>
> The problem (beside finding volunteer for the position of GSoC
> administrator) is that both GSoC application and ideas for GSoC
> projects were hosted on Git Wiki... but Git Wiki is still only parially
> functional, available only as static pages under changed URLs.
>
> I guess we can get by without having fully functional wiki for creating
> application (if we decide to apply), but it would need a forum to send
> ideas for GSoC projects and some place to publish them.  Editable wiki
> can work as both, though git mailing list and some static page (perhaps
> home pages for git project on GitHub?) could also work.
>
>
> I don't know what are ETA on bringing Git Wiki fully up, but I doubt it
> would be possible at http://git.wiki.kernel.org -- it is more than two
> months since the event and wiki is not functional yet.  Perhaps it
> could be hosted at git-scm.com somewhere -  but it really should be
> true wiki, editable without need to use git.
>

I can probably set something up there, but I'm not sure if I can import everything. In the longer term (a month or two) I will have a full wiki import running on that domain, but in the next few weeks we might want to just setup a temp wiki somewhere to pull together the ideas and I can link to it from git-scm.com

Scott