On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:54:29PM +0530, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote: > > However, I'm a bit unsure if you aren't loading too much on yourself, > > seeing how much effort it took the other projects to implement *just the > > read-only parts* properly. So I still wonder why it wouldn't be better > > to focus purely on the editing and commit creation, while relying on > > an existing web interface to provide the history browsing, diffs, etc. > > Yeah, My GSoC project will consist of this. Remaining all > functionalities will be coded after i finish GSoC. > > > This could be done in several ways - simply taking a client and adding > > your code to provide the extra functionality there, OR creating a > > standalone project that would be cross-linked with a given web > > interface. The latter option is interesting since your extension could > > work easily with the web interfaces of choice (and e.g. modifying gitweb > > to provide the appropriate links is trivial, to a degree even possible > > purely from config file). > > I am intended to link it with gitweb. That sounds great! > > P.S.: I could volunteer to mentor such a project, if no more active > > Git hacker shows interest. Perhaps Jakub Narebski might be interested? > > Wow. That's great, If u could get a confirmation that somebody is > willing to mentor this, then i can start the project even before the > start of GSoC itself. Please note that Google provides a funding to a limited number of projects and the willingness to mentor a project does not mean yet that we will choose your project in particular for the GSoC program. I can still provide you with guidance outside of the GSoC frame and your contributions will still be certainly welcome, but we can decide which projects to choose for GSoC only when we receive all the applications. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html