From: Christian Couder Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:28:02 GMT Subject: Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140213085039.GA29152@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> > Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish. >> >> Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely >> too small for a GSoC project. But that could be a part of it. I'm not >> sure how google welcomes GSoC projects made of multiple small tasks, but >> my experience with students is that it's much better than a single (too) >> big task, and I think that was the general feeling on this list when we >> discussed it last year. > > I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project > made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting > experiment. I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And bonus > points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the ramp-up > time from one for another. Yeah, a student working on the "git bisect fix/unfixed" feature, could fix git bisect testing too many merge bases, and if there is still time work on moving more code from shell to C.