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([2401:4900:93f1:72e7:7147:28f0:d3fa:f2d1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-82f0c500415sm922689b3a.51.2026.04.09.20.01.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7207a7f0-3806-4ff3-a3d2-2cdcc23f913a@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:31:22 +0530 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US To: git Cc: Christian Couder , karthik nayak , Siddharth Asthana , Ayush Chandekar , Chandra Pratap , Patrick Steinhardt , Justin Tobler , Lucas Seiki Oshiro , Junio C Hamano From: Kaartic Sivaraam Subject: [GSoC] Call for Mentors - Help Us Welcome More Contributors to Git Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi all, We have great news and a small challenge — and we need your help. This year, Git received 19 GSoC proposals, which speaks to the growing interest in contributing to our project. We have 5 strong project ideas [1] and are working to select as much candidates as possible (at the moment we're capped at 3-4). We're constrained not by the quality of proposals, but by mentor availability. Right now, we have only 6 mentors (3 primary, 3 co-mentors), and that limits how many promising contributors we can take on. That's where you come in. If you have experience contributing to Git and can spare some time this summer, we'd love to have you on board as a mentor or co-mentor. Mentoring is one of the most direct ways to grow our community — many of today's long-term contributors got their start through exactly this kind of guidance. Karthik, Ayush and Chandra are examples of GSoC contributors now turned into community members contributing outside GSoC. Even stepping up as a co-mentor makes a real difference. We also have one self-proposed project from a candidate this year [2]. If anyone is willing to mentor them specifically, that would be very welcome. If you're interested or have questions, please reply to this thread. Every additional mentor means one more contributor we can nurture into a long-term member of the Git community. Thank you! [[ References ]] [1]: https://git.github.io/SoC-2026-Ideas/ [2]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAOAgETPhYra3XrevHptFu0x-se8D9ovRtgfomwFbhq9rSTXu6A@mail.gmail.com/ -- Sivaraam