Future of Git's GSoC involvement

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This year, there was some agreement that Git didn't do very well as a GSoC member, in particular in the number of projects merged and students retained. As a consequence, we are not participating this year. The relevant threads:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/216485
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/219298

However, I and others believe that this abstention only has value if we spend the year thinking about how to improve. And I think git-merge is a good place to kick that off. I do not know the attendee list, but I know that at least one each of former admin (Jeff), mentor (me) and student (Carlos) will be there :-)

I will prepare a survey of the points made in the above threads and (as far as that is available to me) previous projects and results to get things started, but I would really like to see some open discussion.