[GSoC][RFC][Proposal v1] Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats

Harshit Jain· Mar 23, 2020, 07:23 UTC · lore

Greetings! I would like to request all of you to please review and give suggestions for my GSoC proposal. I have already submitted the draft on the GSoC official website and have mentioned the link here as well.

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNDKC-ZVTdo-B9xUtB1LuVkQXpYBsB5dEEtRbHuzWtE/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks, Harshit Jain

Hariom verma· Mar 23, 2020, 09:42 UTC · re: Harshit Jain · lore

Re: [GSoC][RFC][Proposal v1] Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats

Hi Harshit,

Apart from your name initial(i.e 'H') and project title, the proposal itself gives the mild feeling of mine. Wait did I just said 'mild'?

Well, I'm --pretty amazed to know how closely we think. Taking a look at someones work is always a good point to start. Don't just stop here, you still got plenty of time to research more on pretty.* and ref-filter.* And you may find something more crucial that I wasn't able to find.

Regards, Hariom

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:57 PM Harshit Jain <harshitjain1371999@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Greetings!
> I would like to request all of you to please review and give suggestions
> for my GSoC proposal. I have already submitted the draft on the GSoC
> official website and have mentioned the link here as well.
>
> Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNDKC-ZVTdo-B9xUtB1LuVkQXpYBsB5dEEtRbHuzWtE/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Thanks,
> Harshit Jain

Harshit Jain· Mar 23, 2020, 10:37 UTC · re: Hariom verma · lore

Re: [GSoC][RFC][Proposal v1] Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats

Hi Hariom,

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:12 PM Hariom verma <hariom18599@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Harshit,
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> Apart from your name initial(i.e 'H') and project title, the proposal
> itself gives the mild feeling of mine. Wait did I just said 'mild'?
>
> Well, I'm --pretty amazed to know how closely we think. Taking a look
> at someones work is always a good point to start.

It is very disappointing to know that you feel this way. Please help me understand, about why you feel so. Apart from this example of yours "For instance, note that "%(objectname:short) %(contents:subject)" is similar to '--pretty=oneline'. Now one can try to find how 'oneline' is implemented in 'pretty.c', and could modify that to use the 'ref-filter' API."

which I later myself researched and verified as well, I haven't tried to copy or use any part of your proposal.

I feel that the spirit in open source communities should be to keep learning from each other and build up the whole thing together. And in the same sprit, I looked at this example of yours, found it really insightful, researched and verified it on my own and hence, included in my proposal. (not knowing that you would feel otherwise) Just to inform you, now I have also removed this example from my proposal.

In addition, I would like to tell you that any two proposals that are for the same project are bound to have some generic details looking similar. For eg. description mentioned on the git page, mailing list link, code links, etc.

Further, if you still think that there are some parts in my proposal that are copied from yours, just email me, and I would definitely remove them from mine.

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> Don't just stop
> here, you still got plenty of time to research more on pretty.* and
> ref-filter.*
> And you may find something more crucial that I wasn't able to find.
>

Thank you so much for your advice. I will definitely keep researching on the project and hopefully we both find something that makes our proposal stronger. Good luck.

Kind regards, Harshit Jain