Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Feb 20, 2015, 08:26 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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>> There is debian bug 777690 [1] that's basically about making tag's >> version sort aware about -rc, -pre suffixes. I imagine it would touch >> versioncmp.c and builtin/tag.c (to retrieve the suffixes from config >> file). >> >> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777690 > > I think that's a reasonable thing to work on, but it's too big for a > microproject and too small for a GSoC.
That is certainly too big as a Micro, but I do not think it is too small for GSoC, if it is to be done right (meaning, not just implementing an arbitrary version comparison hardwired, but design how to make it extensible).
I have a feeling that I am complaining that student projects are designed to be too grand and getting told that I am overly pessimistic by everybody else every year. Perhaps this year others may prove me wrong, if we can find mentors, that is ;-)