Hi, I'm resurecting an old thread : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/131321 (message copied below) and welcoming Diane, Axel and Clément (CC-ed), 3 students who have chosen this project. Right now, they're trying to get familiar with the codebase. As a first exercice, they'll try to add textconv support to git-blame. The next tasks are undecided yet (but advices are welcome). I hope the project will be productive, both for students and the Git community! On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose a kind of mini-google summer of code to the > students of the the school where I teach, i.e. Ensimag, France > ( http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/ ). In short, this means having a few > students working for Git for a month at no cost ;-). > > Currently, the students have an end-of-year project (in equivalent of > master 1) with the choice between many subjects, some of them being > somehow "real-life" (i.e. actually usefull things), and other being > artificial (i.e. enjoy doing it, and throw it away afterwards). > > This year, I'd like to propose a subject "contribution to an existing > free software", and since the one I know best currently is Git, this > would take the form of "contribution to the Git project". I'd see the > practical organization a bit like the google summer of code: chose a > feature (the GSoC proposals on the wiki can be a good source of > inspiration), and implement it with the goal of being eventually > merged upstream. There would be no money involved, but the students > get a grade at the end. I would anyway follow the work of the > students, but a co-mentoring from a Git expert would be great. > > The students work full-time for about 3 weeks (May 20th to June 16th), > and are grouped by teams of 2 to 4 students. Given my bandwidth, I > plan to propose only one group of 4 students this year, but we may > scale up later, who knows. > > We have plenty of time before this starts, but I'm just sending this > email to get your feeling on it. > > Any opinion? Do you like the idea? -- Matthieu -- 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