Getting hg into GSoC 2013

[Kevin Bullock]

On 14 Mar 2013, at 2:59 PM, Sean Farley wrote:

> Matthew Turk writes:
> 
>> Hi Jordi,
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> As a final point, I want to address the question of Mercurial applying
>>> as an independent GSoC mentoring org or under the PSF umbrella. I
>>> think we should make an honest effort to go independent, as this will
>>> almost certainly give us more student slots, and from what I can tell,
>>> the Mercurial community is vibrant enough to mentor people. If the
>>> independent application fails, the above work will not go wasted, as
>>> the PSF can almost certainly give us a few student slots.
>>> 
>>> Let's do this!
>> 
>> I'd like to echo Jordi's enthusiasm with a bit of a non-sequitor.  I'm
>> impressed by all of the improvements and functionality additions in
>> mercurial lately.  Watching the steady stream of patches related to
>> just about everything, not to mention the evolution (haha) of
>> changeset evolution, has been really exciting.  I'm interested in
>> doing what I can to promote adoption and awareness of these features.
> 
> I'm in as well! Since I'm still a student, I'll look into applying and
> if that doesn't work, I'll still be willing to help out.

Last time we did GSoC, we had more mentors than students -- talk to your classmates :)

I'd be available to mentor as well if we decide to apply. We discussed it briefly at the last sprint, but I don't think there was any firm decision made.

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Kevin R. Bullock