GSoC Proposal Analysis/Brain Dump

[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.
>
> 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?)
>>>
>>>
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