From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:39:09 GMT Subject: Re: Getting Ensimag students to work on Git for a few weeks Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20091027144405.GA12464@localhost> Clemens Buchacher writes: > That's not much time to get familiar with a complex project like git. So you > will have to do something extremely simple, That very much depends on which students. Some of our students are already experienced programmers when the enter the school. If I manage to attract such students, a group of 4 can do a bit more than "extremely simple". > which probably means that it won't be anything exciting. Depending "exiting for who" ... my first contributions to free software were very trivial code, and I found it very exciting the day I got 20 trivial lines of code of mine into GNU Emacs ;-). So, the feature may not be exciting, but I think the experience for students could be. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/