[corrected David Barr's email address] Jeff King wrote: > And I do not want to blame the students here (some of whom are on the cc > list :) ). They are certainly under no obligation to stick around after > GSoC ends, and I know they have many demands on their time. But I am > also thinking about what Git wants to get out of GSoC (and to my mind, > the most important thing is contributors). > > As far as merged code, I think part of the problem is that git is fairly > mature at this point. The most interesting projects are of a bigger > scope than a student with no experience in the code base can do in a > summer project. Maybe that means we need to do a better job of breaking > projects down into reasonably sized sub-components. Or maybe it means > the project is hitting a point of diminishing returns for GSoC. I don't > know. I'll be frank here. I think the main reason for a student to stick around is to see more of his code hit `master`. I think it is absolutely essential to get students constantly post iteration after iteration on the list. It would be nice to get them connected with 2~3 people in the community who will follow their progress and pitch in everytime they post an iteration. It might also make sense to stage their work in the main tree (a gsoc/ namespace?), so we can just checkout to their branch to demo what they've done. Also, we need more projects that will scratch everyday itches. A collection of related tiny features might not be a bad idea. Often, we risk erring on the side of too-big-for-one-summer when it comes to specifying projects. What's the harm of including something estimated to take 80% of a summer? On a related note, I don't like our Wiki. It's down half the time, and it's very badly maintained. I want to write content for our Wiki from the comfort of my editor, with version control aiding me. And I can't stand archaic WikiText. -- 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