Re: GSoC 2008 - Mentors Wanted!

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mar 4, 2008, 09:23 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqzltec064.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20080304051149.GS8410@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> OK, enough, onto the project list!
>
>   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2008Ideas

Jakub posted an idea about git.el (Emacs support) a few days ago:

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> * GNU Emacs git GUI
>
>   Make git mode for Emacs full featured git GUI, and not only commit
>   tool, following ideas of PCL-CVS... and its limitation. I guess that
>   DVC (http://download.gna.org/dvc) git mode is one thing to examine
>   searching for features to implement, but from what I have read in
>   documentation it is quite a but GNU Arch centric. Other git GUIs, like
>   git-gui, gitk, qgit, tig could also be inspiration for features.
>
>   Goal: Allow creating and switching branches, examining history,
>   merging, fetching etc. from withing Emacs. Should include modes for
>   git config file forma and format-patch patches.
>
>   Language: Emacs Lisp
>   Suggested mentors:
>     Alexandre Julliard
>     David Kagedal

Since I've been quite involved in DVC in the past, I'm willing to help with this, but unfortunately, I'm swamped with work and I can't commit for ~5-10h/week on that.

So, if someone else steps in, perhaps we could rephrase the subject in a "merge git.el and DVC, and improve it" way, and I could co-mentor this one.

All that said, I think most of the ideas already on the wiki should be prioritized (I love Emacs, but I think more people need a good Windows support/GUI for example).

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Matthieu