Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> There is debian bug 777690 [1] that's basically about making tag's
>> version sort aware about -rc, -pre suffixes. I imagine it would touch
>> versioncmp.c and builtin/tag.c (to retrieve the suffixes from config
>> file).
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777690
>
> I think that's a reasonable thing to work on, but it's too big for a
> microproject and too small for a GSoC.

That is certainly too big as a Micro, but I do not think it is too small
for GSoC, if it is to be done right (meaning, not just implementing an
arbitrary version comparison hardwired, but design how to make it
extensible).

I have a feeling that I am complaining that student projects are
designed to be too grand and getting told that I am overly pessimistic
by everybody else every year. Perhaps this year others may prove
me wrong, if we can find mentors, that is ;-)
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