Re: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:21:20PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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I am wondering if we heard from libgit2 folks if they want us to
host them (or they want to participate in GSoC at all).

The libgit2 mention is left from previous versions of this page. I left
a message on their IRC channel asking to join this thread if people were
interested (I don't know the libgit2 community really well, and I didn't
find a mailing-list to Cc here). 

I did not hear anything from them. We should probably remove the mention
of libgit2. Or, if anyone receiving this message is interested in having
libgit2 participate, or knows anyone who may be, speak now.

I think they do a lot of their communication via GitHub issues. I've
cc'd Carlos, the maintainer, who can ping the rest of the community as
appropriate.

I don't think we did a libgit2 project last year, and included the
libgit2 references mainly so that we would not drop them with zero
warning.

Understandable.  I do not mind seeing us hosting them if that is
what they want, but the candidate selection and mentor assignment
between two more-or-less independent projects would not work very
well unless there is _some_ degree of coordination ;-)