[GSoC2008]What's wrong with last years Gittorrent?

> I'm planning to apply Google Summer of Code this year. I noticed
> on the git project page there's a gittorrent implementation. I'm
> interested in this. But later I found there was also a similar
> project (accepted) in last year's SoC: GitTorrent Server and Peer,
> written in Python. Unfortunately, the two links on that page aren't
> available any more. So I'm wondering what's the status of last
> year's GitTorrent? Is there something wrong with that? If any, what
> caused the problem and what's the differences between this year's
> and that one?

> Chiyuan Zhang <pluskid@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I'm planning to apply Google Summer of Code this year. I noticed
>  > on the git project page there's a gittorrent implementation. I'm
>  > interested in this. But later I found there was also a similar
>  > project (accepted) in last year's SoC: GitTorrent Server and Peer,
>  > written in Python. Unfortunately, the two links on that page aren't
>  > available any more. So I'm wondering what's the status of last
>  > year's GitTorrent? Is there something wrong with that? If any, what
>  > caused the problem and what's the differences between this year's
>  > and that one?
>
>
> Last year's GitTorrent implementation never got off the ground.
>  The student who we accepted was unable to actually participate due
>  to legal problems, and we did not find out about it until too late
>  in the program to select a replacement student.
>
>  So in short, there's nothing wrong with last year's GitTorrent,
>  as there was no last year's GitTorrent.  Hence it is on the list
>  again for this year.  :)
>
>  --
>
> Shawn.
>