Re: Git in GSoC 2024

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

Hi Kaartic, Patrick, Karthik and all,

On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 12:41 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/24 15:08, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:27:13PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> >>
> >> I created a fairly rough SoC ideas page for now including a barebones
> >> information about the unit test migration idea:
> >>
> >> https://git.github.io/SoC-2024-Ideas/

Thanks for creating the page!

I have just applied the patch Patrick sent to the mailing list with
the ideas related to reftable.

> >> Note well that the existing idea's description is far from complete and I
> >> mostly just cooked it up to serve as a template for how the idea entry could
> >> look like. Kindly contribute towards elaborating the same :-)
> >>
> >> Also, feel free to suggest ideas you have around refs and reftable backed,
> >> Patrick. Those would be helpful.
> >
> > I'll have a the beginning of next week and will think about topics
> > meanwhile.
> >
>
> Thanks, Patrick! It would be great if you could share the same as soon
> as possible. The deadline for applying to GSoC is Feb 6 (18:00 UTC) and
> we need the ideas page to be decent enough before we go ahead with
> applying for this year.
>
> If the elaborate project description could take time, feel free to share
> a paragraph or two that are supplemented with a few references. That
> should be sufficient for applying to GSoC.

Yeah, we need a decent idea page, but it doesn't need to be finalized.
I think we can still make changes after the deadline (which is for the
Open Source Orgs to apply).

> Christian,
>
> It would be great if you could look into and improve the detail for the
> unit test migration idea. I just added a very terse description based on
> what I could get my hands on. If you think the description we used for
> the Outreachy round would do, kindly update the page with the same or
> kindly share it here so that I could update the same in the ideas page :-)

The project description for Outreachy was not very elaborate and is
now quite outdated. I have instead improved the project description in
the Ideas page.

> > Yeah, as long as there is a co-mentor that can take over during my
> > absence I'm happy to do it. Karthik said that he'd be willing to cover
> > me, which I think would be a good fit given that he's already got quite
> > a bit of exposure to the reftable backend internally at GitLab. Thanks!
>
> Sounds good. Thank you for volunteering to co-mentor, Karthik!

Yeah, thank you Patrick and Karthik!