Getting hg into GSoC 2013

Sean Farley sean.michael.farley at gmail.com
Thu Mar 14 16:18:52 CDT 2013


Kevin Bullock writes:

> 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 :)

Sure, will do!


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