welcome, Bazaar summer-of-code students

[Henry Ludemann]

Congratulations to all the students!

As Szilveszter mentioned in an earlier email, I've also been working on 
Windows shell integration. Current status is shell icon overlay 
extensions work, and the context menu has working commit, diff, and 
checkout (branch) menu options using bzr-gtk.

If Alexander would like, I can back off on this development?

Some screenshots are at <http://www.hl.id.au/Projects/tortoisebzr/>, and 
the bzr branch is at 
<http://www.hl.id.au/Projects/tortoisebzr/bzr-tortoise>.

Martin Pool wrote:
> Google have agreed to sponsor three talented students to work on
> Bazaar during their holidays.  They are:
> 
>  Klaus Hartke (from Germany), on Visual Studio integration
>  Alexander C Haro (USA), on Windows shell integration
>  Bogdano Arendartchuk (Brazil), on an encrypted repository format
> 
> I am happy to see someone representing the southern hemisphere and
> having a winter of code!
> 
> We had a number of good applications this year and unfortunately could
> not accept more.
> 
> Please make them welcome, test and review their code, and give
> feedback and encouragement.  The Windows improvements should be very
> valuable and the encrypted storage format is intriguing.
> 
> The code phase of the project is scheduled to start in late April, I
> suppose after the exam period for American universities.  But we don't
> have to wait until then, and we can at least start talking about these
> things.  It was very cool to see (as far as I am aware) some code
> already from Klaus and Alexander, and Bogdano on irc.
> 
> I would like to invite our students to the upcoming sprint in London,
> from the 14th to 18th of May.  I hope this doesn't clash with your
> exams and that you will be able to come and meet more of the people
> you'll be working with.  Please mail me directly to let me know.
> 
>  http://bazaar-vcs.org/SprintLondonMay07
>