On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Azhagu Selvan wrote: > >> On Monday 22 February 2010 08:56 PM, Daniel Näslund wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:28:13AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Daniel Näslund<dan...@longitudo.com> >>>> 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] >>>>> >>>> Yes. There's an ASF committee called "comdev" >>>> (http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html) that manages our participation >>>> in GSoC. They will do the application on the foundation's behalf and >>>> post info to all PMCs about how to participate on the ASF end if a >>>> project is interested. ComDev will also manage the ranking process - >>>> when you have 70+ projects interested in participating even when you >>>> have 30-40 slots, the review process can get a bit "heated" >>>> internally. (If you're interested in tracking this, you might want to >>>> join d...@community.apache.org.) >>>> >>> Ok. Given the short amount of time to deadline (18 days) and the absence >>> of discussions on fitting tasks for a GSoC project I assume the >>> Subversion community is not interrested in participating this year. Too >>> bad if that's the case! >>> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am a n00b hacker who uses svn for my major collaborative works[1]. >> I would like to contribute back to the svn community. It would be more >> lovely if my contribution starts in GSoC. Actually I was planning to apply >> as a student developer for Subversion in GSoC'10. But was a bit disappointed >> that subversion may not participate in GSoC this year. > > We haven't made a concrete decision one way or another, so don't be > disappointed quite yet. It actually helps to know that people are interested > in participating, 'cause that will motivate us to participate.
Additionally, if you happen to already have specific ideas for a Subversion task you'd be interested in working on for GSoC, let us know! While that's certainly not required, it certainly doesn't hurt. There may be some great, summer-sized ideas that real users like you need that we wouldn't have necessarily thought of ourselves. --dave -- glas...@davidglasser.net | langtonlabs.org | flickr.com/photos/glasser/
