GSoC Proposal Analysis/Brain Dump

Bastian Doetsch bastian.doetsch at gmx.de
Mon Apr 19 20:00:44 UTC 2010


Am 19.04.2010 um 18:31 schrieb Benoit Boissinot:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is there discussion needed on the 4 accepted students?
>>>> 
>>>> Currently they rank in the following way:
>>>> 1       Improved Changeset Discovery    Mark Determann
>>>> 2       hgwebdir rewrite                Alexandru Totolici
>>>> 3       Narrow Cloning                  Rafael Goncalves Martins
>>>> 4       Porting Mercurial to Python 3   Renato Cunha
>>>> 5       Parent Delta                    Pradeepkumar Gayam
>>>> 5       Shallow Cloning in Mercurial    Vishakh Harikumar
>>>> (the others are negative)
>>> 
>>> I'm not _personally_ a fan of Py3k, but I'll defer to the judgement of
>>> others, especially since it seems like parent delta and narrow cloning
>>> might step on each other a little.
>>> 
> 
> It would be really nice (even if it's a bit late), to know what other
> think about that (py3k vs parent-delta). Especially since to be
> considered by the application process, we need to assign mentor to
> every application we might accept.

I would definitely go for parent-delta, as py3k doesn't immediately deliver a benefit to the community, while parent-delta does.

Cheers
Bastian

>> 
>> Now is the good time to put public comments and ask questions to
>> students. See if they reply, etc.
>> The following is a good read too:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/FindAStudent
> 
> For the time being, we have two duplicate students in our top 4. I
> guess only Augie can see what the conflict is.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Benoit
> 
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Benoit
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Benoit
>>>> 
>>>> (do we have a dedicated mailing list for this?)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> :wq
>>>> 
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