Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish.

Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely
too small for a GSoC project. But that could be a part of it. I'm not
sure how google welcomes GSoC projects made of multiple small tasks, but
my experience with students is that it's much better than a single (too)
big task, and I think that was the general feeling on this list when we
discussed it last year.

I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project
made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting
experiment.  I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And bonus
points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the ramp-up
time from one for another.

Yeah, a student working on the "git bisect fix/unfixed" feature, could
fix git bisect testing too many merge bases, and if there is still
time work on moving more code from shell to C.