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Working on a rejected GSoC project

Subject: Working on a rejected GSoC project

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4 messages between Apr 29, 2012 and Apr 30, 2012.

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jaseem abid· Apr 29, 2012, 11:46 UTC · lore
Hello everyone,

I applied for the project "Use JavaScript library / framework in gitweb" which sadly didn't get a slot this year's GSoC. I would love to work on this project in my summer vacation as nobody else got the project and is working on it now. It would be great if someone among you can spare some of your time for me and be a mentor to help me out in this task. I am planning to stick to the GSoC schedule and finish it as early as possible in a good manner.

I have my university break coming soon and will be able to work on this from 2nd May to 20th July investing as much as time this requires. Its quite sad that I have to do this without the GSoC tag or money, but I really want to finish something I started already. I hear by see this as an opportunity to contribute back to a tool which I heavily use on a day to day basis.

Any sort of help would be greatly valued.
-- 
Jaseem Abid
http://jaseemabid.github.com
Andrew Sayers· Apr 29, 2012, 23:20 UTC · re: jaseem abid · lore

Re: Working on a rejected GSoC project

I don't know anything about gitweb specifically, but I'd be happy to talk about generic JS issues. You can e-mail privately if you like, but you'll probably get a wider range of views if you route messages via the mailing list.

	- Andrew
jaseem abid· Apr 30, 2012, 12:30 UTC · re: Andrew Sayers · lore

Re: Working on a rejected GSoC project

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org> wrote:

> I don't know anything about gitweb specifically, but I'd be happy to
> talk about generic JS issues.  You can e-mail privately if you like, but
> you'll probably get a wider range of views if you route messages via the
> mailing list.
Thanks a lot Andrew :)

I think I should follow the general contribution policies and work as usual rather than as a GSoC student. Write code, ask for a general review here, update code based on the review and iterate again and again to get the task done and I hope somebody will find time to review it and help me out. I am still awaiting to hear from Jakub who helped me out in the beginning with some comments and reviews on code I pushed to https://github.com/jaseemabid/git/tree/gsoc.

I'd also like to add that I'm a newbie to FOSS contribution and I have no prior experience with this. Please tolerate mistakes :) All I can assure is that will try my level best to make this work out well.

Regards,

Jaseem Abid http://jaseemabid.github.com

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