Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:37:22PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > In any case: let's not special-case people because they came to us via GSOC. Yes. That's how we've handled it in the past, and it has worked well.

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
In any case: let's not special-case people because they came to us via GSOC. IOW: whatever policy we decide on should apply equally to GSOC-sponsored and other contributors. Stefan Sperling wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:20:49 +0100: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Mark Phippard wro

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread yun lee
As a GSOC student, I'm more interested in making a progress on my development experience and skills. And whether to working on trunk is not so important, however, I wish my work can be packed into the new release for wide users, the earlier the better! 2011/3/19 Stefan Sperling : > On Fri, Mar 18

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote: > Working on trunk is no panacea that guarantees a student is going to > get quality review. I do not even see where it would make sense for a > student to be on trunk (depending on the task). The real issue is > that we probably do n

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:53:17PM -0500, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > Another GSoC consideration is that it would be nice to have students > contributing directly to trunk. But with the 1.7 release "feature > freeze"[1] on going until we branch, they'd have to work on feature > branches, which get les

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Phippard
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Ivan Zhakov wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 22:46, Mark Phippard wrote: Something that came up on the list recently was adding support for >

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-18 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Ivan Zhakov wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 22:46, Mark Phippard wrote: >>> Something that came up on the list recently was adding support for >>> pipelined commits via ra_serf. Would this make a good GSOC

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Phippard
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Ivan Zhakov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 22:46, Mark Phippard wrote: >> Something that came up on the list recently was adding support for >> pipelined commits via ra_serf. Would this make a good GSOC project? >> It seems like the kind of "engineering" challen

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-18 Thread Ivan Zhakov
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 22:46, Mark Phippard wrote: > Something that came up on the list recently was adding support for > pipelined commits via ra_serf. Would this make a good GSOC project? > It seems like the kind of "engineering" challenge that might appeal to > a student.  I have no idea if it

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-18 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: > Something that came up on the list recently was adding support for > pipelined commits via ra_serf. Would this make a good GSOC project? > It seems like the kind of "engineering" challenge that might appeal to > a student.  I have no idea if

GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Phippard
Something that came up on the list recently was adding support for pipelined commits via ra_serf. Would this make a good GSOC project? It seems like the kind of "engineering" challenge that might appeal to a student. I have no idea if it is too big or small for GSOC. For example, I have no idea i