[darcs-devel] google SoC

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:50:11PM +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:44:40 -0800, David Roundy wrote:
> > I'd like darcs to be a mentor for the google summer of code this year, and
> > the applications are next week.  So I'm asking for ideas and volunteers to
> > be mentors.  The latter is as important as the former.
> 
> Some catch-all projects?
> 
> * A Windows project: not sure what this would entail, but darcs on
>   Windows might need a bit of special attention
> 
> * General robustness: maybe not to do with patch theory stuff, but
>   things like the HalFs thing (no more worrying whenever your
>   supervisor uses Unison to synch with her laptop), improved error
>   messages, blowing up in as graceful and helpful a manner as possible.

Yeah, here are a couple more inspired by your suggestions: (one's just a
clarification of what you suggested)

* A single-file database pristine cache, which should be faster and more
  robust than our directory-based approach.  e.g. a halfs filesystem.

* Keeping track of which patches affect which files, to speed up query
  operations that affect only certain files (e.g. changes, diff, etc, when
  given a filename argument).

I'm not sure error messages is quantifiable, in the sense that they need
projects that can be measured in terms of whether or not the student
succeeded.  A new error message framework *might* be doable, but it'd take
some sort of explanation.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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