Hi Dscho, On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 5:19 PM Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Kaartic, > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > > On 28/01/22 4:15 pm, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > A project that I would personally find a lot of fun, with a great impact, > > > and never really talked about on this list, would be to offer a good > > > replacement for the `git daemon`: its purpose is to make it easy to stand > > > up an ad-hoc server, to allow developers to clone/fetch (and even push, if > > > that is enabled) via the network, unauthenticated. Now, the git:// > > > protocol has served us well in the beginning, but it is increasingly > > > obvious that we should use https:// wherever possible. Wouldn't it be fun > > > to have a `git daemon` that talks https:// by default, maybe even > > > optionally offering a real web UI via gitweb? This is not as huge of a > > > project as it sounds, Jeff Hostetler already did a ton of work to that end > > > over in the Microsoft fork of Git: the `test-gvfs-protocol` helper is used > > > in the regression tests to offer Git repositories via http:// and the > > > biggest task to convert this to an HTTP-speaking `git daemon` would be to > > > rip out the GVFS parts. After that, HTTPS support could be added. > > > > > > > Sounds interesting. Would you mind drafting this into a project proposal > > for GSoC. Then we could add it to the list of ideas document [1]. > > > > Also, would you be willing to mentor a student in case they pick this > > project? Or would you rather leave it to others? > > I would _love_ to mentor a student, but my time constraints do not allow > me to do that. > That's understandable. Thanks for sharing the project idea! In case anyone else is interested to volunteer as a mentor for this project, do chime in. We could then add this one to the ideas list. -- Sivaraam
