Whether Mercuril will participate GSoc 2009?

[Justin Peng]

> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:36:40 +0100
> From: Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl>
> Subject: Re: Whether Mercuril will participate GSoc 2009?
> To: Vivian Roosevelt <vivian.roosevelt at gmail.com>
> Cc: mercurial at selenic.com
> Message-ID: <49982878.9040204 at ochtman.nl>
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> On 15/02/2009 08:08, Vivian Roosevelt wrote:
> > I wonder whether Mercuril will participate in GSoc 2009. If so, I would
> > like to be a student volunteer.
>
> Hello Vivian,
>
> It's great that you're already asking around! The Mercurial project will
> certainly try to participate in the GSoC again; however, it all depends
> if we manage to be accepted by Google this year.
>
> Do you have a project in mind already, something for you to work on?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirkjan

Great Message for students! Thanks for telling us, Dirkjan!

I'm a Chinese postgraduate student on CS, also eager for GSOC on Mercurial.

I have been using SVN as my VCS for nearly two years.  I found it not
friendly in poor network connection, and hard to keep branch history after
merging. This problem has been resolved after I touched Mercurial early this
month.

So far, I have installed Mercurial on my windows, and learned some common
commands, which are very similar to SVN. After reading some wiki-pages and
some chapters of hg-book.pdf, I have cloned a mercurial-repo and done some
simple hacking by following wiki-page[Developer Basics]  just last night.
The process to study Mercurial is interesting.

As Mercurial is a small-size project,  it's more friendly for new students
to study and master. Furthermore, I also believe Distributed Version Control
System is the trend, and would love to devote to the competition in the
field of VCS.

I have some project experience on geocoding. However I haven't developed any
project in python.   I consider it a good chance for me to improve my python
skills and learn from experienced developers by participating in GSOC 2009
on Mercurial.

Up to now, however, I have no innovative project idea for this years' GSOC.
In the following weeks, I will continue my hacking and pay attention to the
TODO list for getting some inspiration.

I also have a question, as a student volunteer, what can and should I do
before submitting my application next month?

Thanks a lot!

Regards
--
Justin Peng
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