Re: Git and GSoC 2013

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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What I gathered from the discussion so far is that everybody agrees
that our mentoring has been suboptimal in various ways (not enough
encouragement to engage with the community early, working in the
cave for too long, biting too much to chew etc.).  What makes you
think we would do better this year?

The fact that we will be more conscious that we need smaller projects
and that we need to push even more for students to send their patch
soon on the mailing list.

If it doesn't work at all we will be set and we will know that there
is not much we can do to make it work.

That sounds like doing the same thing over and over again to me.

I just looked at the "ideas" page Thomas sent the link to upthread
this morning, but I didn't see any evidence that it has been been
curated with "we need smaller projects" in mind.

We will be more conscious?  I cannot take that promise at face value
after seeing that the page stayed the same since Thomas resurrected
it from last year's ideas page ever since it was created.

If we don't even try we will not know soon, so not be able to improve
or decide to stop.

It's like software or science. If you don't test soon your hypothesis
you don't progress fast.

The impression I am getting is that the concensus is that we do not
even have hypothesis worth testing with a grant money from GSoC and
students' time at this point, if I may borrow your science analogy.