Daniel Näslund wrote: > Hi! > > Google Summer of Code is on for 2010 [1]. Is there any interest in > participating this year? If so, I've found that the mentoring > application deadline is 12 march. [2] > > Since we're part of ASF, perhaps an application should go > through them? [3] > > I've tried locating the GSoC ideas pages for 2009 but it seems to have > got lost in the move to apache.org. My own suggestions (given what I > know of subversion so far) would be: > > Implementing a tree conflict resolver > --------------------------------------- > This task probably should have editor-v2 available. Perhaps the task > could be defined as doing some vital parts of editor-v2 and continue > with a TC resolver once finished with the editor. And yes, I have no > notion whatsoever about the time frame required for the editor-work. > > Replacing externals with something similar of ClearCases views > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > I overheard a conversation between Senthil and Bert on IRC where Bert > mentioned the views concept of ClearCase. [4] I want something like > externals but without the edge cases of file externals and with the > externals nodes being more like regular nodes.
Hm, these above sound like they are way too complex for a wee GSoC hacker. Adjusting to the Subversion Community's ways and preferences takes a lot of time in the beginning. Let alone getting to know the code base... > > Patch queues > -------------- > Some kind of quilt functionality for local storage of work-in-progress. > Probably needs to have most the WC-NG parts stable. I expect this to be a lot nicer when our patch format (svn diff/svn patch) does support explicit path changes. Maybe a GSoC project could be to implement such unidiff extensions? Or are you doing that already? > > The views concept and TC resolver was in the GSoC 2009 ideas page IIRC. Really... I believe they are too hard. > > If the subversion community is interested in participating, I'm looking > forward to compete in a friendly fashion for one of the Student > Developer positions. Oh, you mean, that *you* would like to be the GSoC hacker to take on these things, tutored by us? Heh, I expected you to be on the tutor side, maybe ;) That changes a lot, but still, one man-summer is a short time for coding. (From Justin's mail, I silently expect other ASF projects to be more eager than us to have GSoC students and that they will frantically devour the available slots before we made up our mind -- right?) ~Neels (BTW, dannas, you don't want to be Cc'd explicitly when we reply to your mails, right?)
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