Re: Welcome to Git's GSoC 2008!

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From: Shawn O. Pearce
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 11:59 am

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

It is strange.  But I'm sure its something like the site is indexed
by Google itself, and the page rank algorithm is classifying most
of the pages as too low to be worth returning due to the low number
of hyperlinks going in.


Apparently our GSoC work has been useful to others outside of Git.
Excellent.  GSoC has started to become even more of a pet project
of mine, so I'm glad to see people outside of our community have
found our work useful.
  

They haven't contacted me or anyone I know.  I looked up an email
address for the mentor (couldn't locate one for the student)
and sent them an email, as I did for KDevelop.  Except I wrote it
after my reply to you so I didn't mention it in my reply to you.
Ok, so now I have mentioned it.  ;-)


I haven't heard anything about Git in NetBeans lately.  I'm hoping
that one day a devoted NetBeans user will come along and pester
us to break jgit out of the egit repository, so that they can
use it within NetBeans without lugging around Eclipse code they
don't need.  The code is already built with that in mind, it just
has the unfortunate fate of being mingled in the same repository
as the egit code.
  

Marek Zawirski (the Git GSoC student adding push support to jgit)
mentioned something about this to me earlier this week.  I made a
remark about it on #gsoc, and the Google folks who do most of the
work for GSoC had not heard about it before my comment.  With so
many students and projects I am not surprised that they cannot
screen everything.

Most of the screening is left up to the mentors themselves.  So in
this case the Mono mentors must have felt that this project was
large enough and important enough to justify using two student
slots, and that either they didn't know about the rule, were going
to ignore the rule, or would be able to structure the projects to
avoid this dependency.

I hadn't realized Git was so important to the Mono folks.  I thought
they were still on SVN.  In any event, it is interesting that they
are building IDE support.  Its depressing that Microsoft managed to
fracture the development communities into Java vs. C# and that they
use different VMs, resulting in it being more likely that code will
be rewritten rather than reused.

-- 
Shawn.
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Messages in current thread:
Welcome to Git's GSoC 2008!, Shawn O. Pearce, (Mon Apr 21, 6:32 pm)
GSoC 2008 application summary, Shawn O. Pearce, (Mon Apr 21, 6:59 pm)
Re: GSoC 2008 application summary, Shawn O. Pearce, (Tue Apr 22, 9:21 pm)
Re: Welcome to Git's GSoC 2008!, Jakub Narebski, (Fri Apr 25, 9:46 am)
Re: Welcome to Git's GSoC 2008!, Shawn O. Pearce, (Sat Apr 26, 10:29 am)
Re: Welcome to Git's GSoC 2008!, Jakub Narebski, (Sat Apr 26, 11:28 am)
Re: Welcome to Git's GSoC 2008!, Shawn O. Pearce, (Sat Apr 26, 11:59 am)