Hi Cyril, Cyril Roelandt writes: > I am currently studying Computer Science and Engineering. I have > been using Open Source software for quite a while now, but I have > not contributed a lot of code to Open Source projects - except for a > few patches to Gnome. > > Being a git user, I would be interested in working on this project. > I believe that taking part in the GSoC would be a good opportunity > for me to discover the guts of a version control system. Thanks for writing. We'd love to see more student proposals. > * Complete some libgit2 features > Implementing a few key features seems like a great way to understand > the way a VCS works. I would be interesting in working on the diff > command and on the network related commands (git-push, git-fetch). > > * Build a minimal Git client based on libgit2 > It seems to be a quite popular task :) Hacking on this small git > client would be a nice experience and would help me understanding > how libgit2 works. Yes, libgit2-related work in general seems to be very popular among GSoC students this year :) Not to worry- you can make your application stronger by sketching out a solid proposal and showing us some code. > * Build in more external commands > I am wondering why these commands should be rewritten. You know what > they say : "if it is not broken, do not fix it" :-p Do these > commands currently have performance issues ? As Nguyen already pointed out, the rewrite is mostly motivated by portability reasons. > I will be working in a research lab until the end of June, but I > will have more free time in July/August, that I could use to hack on > git, which means I may have less time than most US students, who can > enjoy a slightly longer summer break. Do you think it would be > possible to work one of these projects anyway ? >From my personal experience, most of the GSoC ideas listed on the Git wiki page are quite demanding. They're almost as engaging as a full-time job. I'd be especially worried about the mid-term evaluations. However, if you feel that you can take on a project, please do so by all means -- include a convincing timeline in your proposal. Good luck with your application. -- Ram -- 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