Re: GSOC Project ideas

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Something that came up on the list recently was adding support for
> pipelined commits via ra_serf. Would this make a good GSOC project?
> It seems like the kind of "engineering" challenge that might appeal to
> a student.  I have no idea if it is too big or small for GSOC.  For
> example, I have no idea if this is something that can be done with
> just changes to our client or if it also requires modifying
> mod_dav_svn.

Another GSoC consideration is that it would be nice to have students
contributing directly to trunk. But with the 1.7 release "feature
freeze"[1] on going until we branch, they'd have to work on feature
branches, which get less oversight and testing. Hopefully we branch
the release before GSoC gets in full swing.

-Hyrum

[1] We don't have an formal process, and we don't call it that, but in
effect, that's the stage we're in right now.
Received on 2011-03-18 20:53:50 CET