First of all, I must apologize for not replying during these last days. I'm traveling and I rarely get a connection here. But I'll be back March 11th. On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 4:18 AM Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 4:09 PM Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm a bit wary of a too large proposal here, as we've historically > > overestimated what kind of project is achievable over a summer (I've > > been there myself, as my GSoC project was also more than I was able to > > do in a summer :)). I'd rather have a project whose goal is rather > > small and can be expanded later, than having something that could > > potentially take more than 3 months, where the student (or their > > mentors) have to finish it after GSoC. > I totally understand the concern. > Yeah, I agree with your suggestion about a project that declares > removing the global variables as the main goal, and adding parallelism > as a potential bonus. > Talking about a delimited scope for GSoC and a potential bonus after, a potential idea comes to my mind: I'm still trying to define the subject for my undergraduate thesis (which must be in HPC and/or parallelism on CPU/GPU). And the idea of bringing more parallelism to git seems to be too big for a GSoC project. So, perhaps, if we manage to identify wether parallelism would indeed bring a good performance gain to git, I could propose that to my advisor professor as my undergraduate thesis and I could work on that during this whole year. It is still an idea to be matured, but do you think it would be feasible?
