Hello,
I was considering applying for GSoC this year, but for personal reasons
I decided not to propose anything this year, and focus on some other
personal projects. Anyway, I was thinking about something that might
still help the Git organization this year, so I'd like to share the idea
with you, to see if it's not too crazy, and if it would be doable.
In a previous mail, Jakub said one of the limitations for the number of
accepted students is the number of available mentors. Well, for the
project I'm interested in, modernizing Git.pm, he is the suggested
mentor himself, and also for the gitweb one (adding a JS framework). But
if he is the only available mentor for both projects, and there are many
students interested in both of them, only one will be accepted, as he'll
probably be unable to mentor two students. Is that correct? So that
either "Javascript library in gitweb" is accepted, or "modernizing
Git.pm". (Of course, it seems one person can mentor two projects, but
that's not advised by Google, and Git would profit if there were at
least co-mentors for one of the projects.)
I was thinking... if the problem is the lack of mentors, would it be
possible, for instance, for the Git.pm proposal, to ask people from the
Perl community, like the ones who wrote Git modules on CPAN
(Git::Wrapper, Git::PurePerl, etc) to help out? Maybe they would have
different insights on what can be done in Git.pm, how it could be done
in a better way, etc. On the other hand, they would not make anything
the git community wouldn't approve, because the community would be
involved in every step. Do you think this is viable? Maybe there could
even be more than one mentor per student (last year I had two mentors
for GSoC), so that we could have one mentor who has a stronger knowledge
in the Perl language, and another who has a stronger knowledge in Git's
internals, etc.
If this would be helpful, I'd be willing to contact people to see
whether they'd like to candidate for being a Git mentor. Also, I'm
suggesting the Perl community because I know some of them, and it makes
sense (at least in my head) for the project I was interested in. But
maybe this could be expanded to other proposals? If this was possible,
it could ease the burden for the current mentors, and get more projects
accepted for git.
Or maybe there are more people in this mailing list who would volunteer
for the job? I contacted Ævar Bjarmason to see if he is interested, but
maybe someone here would like too.
Regards,
André
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