GSoC Project Ideas for 2016

Here are some ideas of possible 2016 summer project ideas for Mercurial. Your own ideas are welcome. You may decide to work on these ideas or use them as a starting point for your own.

All potential GSoC candidates should visit our SummerOfCode/2016 page, which contains more information on everything GSoC for this year.

1. Please add GSoC ideas here

1.1. Example

• Project description: This is an example project. Please add a clear description with some details about the idea.

• Skills: Specific programming languages, domain-specific knowledge... For example: Python, network programming

• Difficulty level: Easy/Intermediate/Difficult

• Related reading/Links: Useful links to wiki pages, specific relevant mailing list discussions or patches, ...

• Further details: Additional detail about the idea

• Potential mentors: mentors likely to be involved with this project

1.2. Improved handling of merge conflicts

• Project description: Improve the user-friendliness of merge conflicts

• Skills: Python

• Difficulty level: Easy/Intermediate/Difficult ?

• Related reading/Links: http://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29

• Further details: Merge conflicts between files and directories are not handled in a user-friendly way. Similarly, largefiles conflicts are also not handled very well.

• Potential mentors: ?

2. Other ideas?

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