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* Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
@ 2026-08-26 10:55 Christian Couder
  2026-08-26 11:39 ` Usman Akinyemi
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Christian Couder @ 2026-08-26 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: Git at SFC, Kaartic Sivaraam

Hi everyone,

Open Source communities have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm UTC to
sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in Outreachy's
December 2026 cohort (see
https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/).
And (co)mentors have until that same time to submit project
descriptions.

Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
Git project itself.

Let us know if you want to help as a (co)mentor or an Org Admin, if
you know a company that would sponsor an intern, if you have ideas for
projects that we could propose, or if you have an opinion on Git
participating again this year, or on how we should select interns,
etc.

I am likely to mentor and help as an Org Admin again this year unless
we decide not to participate.

Thanks.

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-08-26 10:55 Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort Christian Couder
@ 2026-08-26 11:39 ` Usman Akinyemi
  2026-09-02 13:20 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  2026-09-05  8:26 ` Christian Couder
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Usman Akinyemi @ 2026-08-26 11:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Couder; +Cc: git, Git at SFC, Kaartic Sivaraam

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
Hello
>
> Open Source communities have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm UTC to
> sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in Outreachy's
> December 2026 cohort (see
> https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/).
> And (co)mentors have until that same time to submit project
> descriptions.
I was already waiting for this.
>
> Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
And to add to this, the intern later went on to co-mentor a GSOC
intern this year.
And also will be presenting his project in the coming Git conference.
I was also a previous
Outreachy intern myself. Because of this, I believe the program is
very much valuable to the community.
> GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
> last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
> Git project itself.
>
> Let us know if you want to help as a (co)mentor or an Org Admin, if
> you know a company that would sponsor an intern, if you have ideas for
> projects that we could propose, or if you have an opinion on Git
> participating again this year, or on how we should select interns,
> etc.
I will like to be a co-mentor again this year.
>
> I am likely to mentor and help as an Org Admin again this year unless
> we decide not to participate.
>
> Thanks.
Thanks.
>

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-08-26 10:55 Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort Christian Couder
  2026-08-26 11:39 ` Usman Akinyemi
@ 2026-09-02 13:20 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  2026-09-03 10:24   ` Pablo Sabater
  2026-09-05  8:26 ` Christian Couder
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Kaartic Sivaraam @ 2026-09-02 13:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Couder, git; +Cc: Git at SFC, Pablo Sabater

Hi Christian,

On 8/26/26 16:25, Christian Couder wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Open Source communities have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm UTC to
> sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in Outreachy's
> December 2026 cohort (see
> https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/).
> And (co)mentors have until that same time to submit project
> descriptions.
> 
> Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
> GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
> last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
> Git project itself.
> 
> Let us know if you want to help as a (co)mentor or an Org Admin, if
> you know a company that would sponsor an intern, if you have ideas for
> projects that we could propose, or if you have an opinion on Git
> participating again this year, or on how we should select interns,
> etc.
> 

I too believe it would be great if Git could participate in Outreachy 
this year.

I would be willing to co-mentor a project this year. I could also help
as an org admin if needed.

Also, Pablo was interested to volunteer as a co-mentor for Outreachy. 
I've added him in Cc.

--
Sivaraam


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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-02 13:20 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
@ 2026-09-03 10:24   ` Pablo Sabater
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Pablo Sabater @ 2026-09-03 10:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kaartic Sivaraam, Christian Couder, git; +Cc: Git at SFC, Pablo Sabater

On Wed Sep 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM WEST, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On 8/26/26 16:25, Christian Couder wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Open Source communities have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm UTC to
>> sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in Outreachy's
>> December 2026 cohort (see
>> https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/).
>> And (co)mentors have until that same time to submit project
>> descriptions.
>> 
>> Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
>> GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
>> last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
>> Git project itself.
>> 
>> Let us know if you want to help as a (co)mentor or an Org Admin, if
>> you know a company that would sponsor an intern, if you have ideas for
>> projects that we could propose, or if you have an opinion on Git
>> participating again this year, or on how we should select interns,
>> etc.
>> 
>
> I too believe it would be great if Git could participate in Outreachy 
> this year.
>
> I would be willing to co-mentor a project this year. I could also help
> as an org admin if needed.
>
> Also, Pablo was interested to volunteer as a co-mentor for Outreachy. 
> I've added him in Cc.
>
> --
> Sivaraam

Hello,

Yes, I'd also like to volunteer as a co-mentor for Outreachy this year.

Although I won't have as much time available as I did during the summer,
now that the university semester has started, I believe I can still make
enough time to review and mentor.

I do have exams in October and January, but they shouldn't make me 
unavailable for a whole week, so I don't expect them to be a problem.

Regards,
Pablo

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-08-26 10:55 Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort Christian Couder
  2026-08-26 11:39 ` Usman Akinyemi
  2026-09-02 13:20 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
@ 2026-09-05  8:26 ` Christian Couder
  2026-09-09  9:12   ` Christian Couder
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Christian Couder @ 2026-09-05  8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: Git at SFC, Kaartic Sivaraam, Pablo, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 12:55 PM Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Open Source communities have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm UTC to
> sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in Outreachy's
> December 2026 cohort (see
> https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/).
> And (co)mentors have until that same time to submit project
> descriptions.

Thank you Usman, Kaartic and Pablo for volunteering to co-mentor!

As no one objected to Git participating in Outreachy, I will submit a
Community Application for Git very soon.

We will still have to sign up as mentors and find and submit projects
for interns to work on soon. We have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm
UTC, which is less than one week from now.

I have been thinking about the following projects:

1. Continue removing global state (and perhaps start libifying some
parts of the code base).

I think Tian Yuchen said there is not much work left related to
"environment.{c,h}". So maybe we need to adjust the project compared
to its previous description or maybe make it about actually libifying
some parts of the code base.

2. Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed.

There are still a number of places in the code base where command
arguments are scanned or parsed using ad hoc hand-rolled code instead
of an existing API like the parse-options API or the early-scan API I
recently proposed in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260902161047.476753-1-christian.couder@gmail.com/.
Those pieces of ad hoc parsing or scanning code are often buggy and
difficult to maintain. I think porting them to an API while improving
that API if necessary can be an interesting project and bring a lot of
long term benefits to the project. As the parse-options API is already
quite feature-full, there are likely some areas where porting the
parsing code to it should be relatively easy which is newcomer
friendly.

Let me know your opinion about these and if you have other project ideas.

> Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
> GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
> last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
> Git project itself.

I will start poking people at GitLab about this, but it would be nice
if we could get some kind of help with this regarding other companies
too.

Thanks,
Christian.

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-05  8:26 ` Christian Couder
@ 2026-09-09  9:12   ` Christian Couder
  2026-09-14  6:38     ` Siddharth Asthana
  2026-09-14  8:37     ` Pablo Sabater
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Christian Couder @ 2026-09-09  9:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: Git at SFC, Kaartic Sivaraam, Pablo, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Usman, Kaartic and Pablo for volunteering to co-mentor!
>
> As no one objected to Git participating in Outreachy, I will submit a
> Community Application for Git very soon.

I have submitted a Community Application for Git, see:

https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/

It says that we are willing to mentor and sponsor 2 interns. Hopefully
we can have two (co-)mentors for each intern.

> We will still have to sign up as mentors and find and submit projects
> for interns to work on soon. We have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm
> UTC, which is less than one week from now.
>
> I have been thinking about the following projects:
>
> 1. Continue removing global state (and perhaps start libifying some
> parts of the code base).
>
> I think Tian Yuchen said there is not much work left related to
> "environment.{c,h}". So maybe we need to adjust the project compared
> to its previous description or maybe make it about actually libifying
> some parts of the code base.
>
> 2. Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed.
>
> There are still a number of places in the code base where command
> arguments are scanned or parsed using ad hoc hand-rolled code instead
> of an existing API like the parse-options API or the early-scan API I
> recently proposed in
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260902161047.476753-1-christian.couder@gmail.com/.
> Those pieces of ad hoc parsing or scanning code are often buggy and
> difficult to maintain. I think porting them to an API while improving
> that API if necessary can be an interesting project and bring a lot of
> long term benefits to the project. As the parse-options API is already
> quite feature-full, there are likely some areas where porting the
> parsing code to it should be relatively easy which is newcomer
> friendly.
>
> Let me know your opinion about these and if you have other project ideas.

As no other project ideas were suggested, I submitted the project
ideas I mentioned above. You can see them in the "Approved Projects
for Git" section of the above mentioned page
(https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/) as:

- Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
(https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-dec-2026-internship-cohort/communities/git/#improve-how-command-arguments-and-options-are-scan)
- Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
(https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-dec-2026-internship-cohort/communities/git/#reduce-gits-global-state-to-enable-gits-libificati)

The links to these projects are currently only available to approved
mentors and coordinators. I applied to mentor both of these projects
as this was required to submit the projects, but I am very much
willing to remove myself from mentoring one of these projects.

So please apply to (co-)mentor one of these projects, or submit other
projects you are willing to mentor if you prefer.

Also let me know if you see things that could be improved in these
projects or the Community Application for Git.

> > Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
> > GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
> > last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
> > Git project itself.
>
> I will start poking people at GitLab about this, but it would be nice
> if we could get some kind of help with this regarding other companies
> too.

I have mentioned GitLab, GitHub and OpenAI as organizations that could
potentially sponsor Outreachy interns. I have also proposed an
"Outreachy sponsoring" topic to be discussed at the Git Contributor's
Summit 2026 next week.

Thanks.

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-09  9:12   ` Christian Couder
@ 2026-09-14  6:38     ` Siddharth Asthana
  2026-09-14  8:24       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  2026-09-14  8:37     ` Pablo Sabater
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Siddharth Asthana @ 2026-09-14  6:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Couder, git
  Cc: Git at SFC, Kaartic Sivaraam, Pablo, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen



On 09/09/26 14:42, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you Usman, Kaartic and Pablo for volunteering to co-mentor!
>>
>> As no one objected to Git participating in Outreachy, I will submit a
>> Community Application for Git very soon.
> 
> I have submitted a Community Application for Git, see:
> 
> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/
> 
> It says that we are willing to mentor and sponsor 2 interns. Hopefully
> we can have two (co-)mentors for each intern.
> 
>> We will still have to sign up as mentors and find and submit projects
>> for interns to work on soon. We have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm
>> UTC, which is less than one week from now.
>>
>> I have been thinking about the following projects:
>>
>> 1. Continue removing global state (and perhaps start libifying some
>> parts of the code base).
>>
>> I think Tian Yuchen said there is not much work left related to
>> "environment.{c,h}". So maybe we need to adjust the project compared
>> to its previous description or maybe make it about actually libifying
>> some parts of the code base.
>>
>> 2. Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed.
>>
>> There are still a number of places in the code base where command
>> arguments are scanned or parsed using ad hoc hand-rolled code instead
>> of an existing API like the parse-options API or the early-scan API I
>> recently proposed in
>> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260902161047.476753-1-christian.couder@gmail.com/.
>> Those pieces of ad hoc parsing or scanning code are often buggy and
>> difficult to maintain. I think porting them to an API while improving
>> that API if necessary can be an interesting project and bring a lot of
>> long term benefits to the project. As the parse-options API is already
>> quite feature-full, there are likely some areas where porting the
>> parsing code to it should be relatively easy which is newcomer
>> friendly.
>>
>> Let me know your opinion about these and if you have other project ideas.
> 
> As no other project ideas were suggested, I submitted the project
> ideas I mentioned above. You can see them in the "Approved Projects
> for Git" section of the above mentioned page
> (https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/) as:
> 
> - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
> (https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-dec-2026-internship-cohort/communities/git/#improve-how-command-arguments-and-options-are-scan)
> - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
> (https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-dec-2026-internship-cohort/communities/git/#reduce-gits-global-state-to-enable-gits-libificati)
> 
> The links to these projects are currently only available to approved
> mentors and coordinators. I applied to mentor both of these projects
> as this was required to submit the projects, but I am very much
> willing to remove myself from mentoring one of these projects.
> 
> So please apply to (co-)mentor one of these projects, or submit other
> projects you are willing to mentor if you prefer.


Applied as co-mentor on the parse-options / early-scan one.

Thanks,
Siddharth


> 
> Also let me know if you see things that could be improved in these
> projects or the Community Application for Git.
> 
>>> Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
>>> GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
>>> last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
>>> Git project itself.
>>
>> I will start poking people at GitLab about this, but it would be nice
>> if we could get some kind of help with this regarding other companies
>> too.
> 
> I have mentioned GitLab, GitHub and OpenAI as organizations that could
> potentially sponsor Outreachy interns. I have also proposed an
> "Outreachy sponsoring" topic to be discussed at the Git Contributor's
> Summit 2026 next week.
> 
> Thanks.


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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-14  6:38     ` Siddharth Asthana
@ 2026-09-14  8:24       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Kaartic Sivaraam @ 2026-09-14  8:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Siddharth Asthana
  Cc: Git at SFC, Pablo, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen, git,
	Christian Couder

Hi Siddarth,

On 9/14/26 12:08, Siddharth Asthana wrote:
>>
>> The links to these projects are currently only available to approved
>> mentors and coordinators. I applied to mentor both of these projects
>> as this was required to submit the projects, but I am very much
>> willing to remove myself from mentoring one of these projects.
>>
>> So please apply to (co-)mentor one of these projects, or submit other
>> projects you are willing to mentor if you prefer.
> 
> 
> Applied as co-mentor on the parse-options / early-scan one.
> 

Thank you for volunteering! I've approved you as a mentor for that project.

-- 
Sivaraam


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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-09  9:12   ` Christian Couder
  2026-09-14  6:38     ` Siddharth Asthana
@ 2026-09-14  8:37     ` Pablo Sabater
  2026-09-14  9:41       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Pablo Sabater @ 2026-09-14  8:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Couder, git
  Cc: Git at SFC, Kaartic Sivaraam, Pablo, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On Wed Sep 9, 2026 at 10:12 AM WEST, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me know your opinion about these and if you have other project ideas.
>
> As no other project ideas were suggested, I submitted the project
> ideas I mentioned above. You can see them in the "Approved Projects
> for Git" section of the above mentioned page
> (https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/) as:
>
> - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
> (https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-dec-2026-internship-cohort/communities/git/#improve-how-command-arguments-and-options-are-scan)
> - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
> (https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-dec-2026-internship-cohort/communities/git/#reduce-gits-global-state-to-enable-gits-libificati)
>
> The links to these projects are currently only available to approved
> mentors and coordinators. I applied to mentor both of these projects
> as this was required to submit the projects, but I am very much
> willing to remove myself from mentoring one of these projects.
>
> So please apply to (co-)mentor one of these projects, or submit other
> projects you are willing to mentor if you prefer.
>
> Also let me know if you see things that could be improved in these
> projects or the Community Application for Git.
>

Hello,

I've applied as co-mentor for the libification one, this way we have at
least one mentor for each project.

Regards,
Pablo

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-14  8:37     ` Pablo Sabater
@ 2026-09-14  9:41       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  2026-09-16 20:58         ` Christian Couder
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Kaartic Sivaraam @ 2026-09-14  9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pablo Sabater, Christian Couder, git
  Cc: Git at SFC, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On 9/14/26 14:07, Pablo Sabater wrote:
> 
> I've applied as co-mentor for the libification one, this way we have at
> least one mentor for each project.
>

Cool, Pablo. I've approved your application and also Usman's. Right now 
we appear to have 2 mentors per project:

   - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification

     - Usman Akinyemi
     - Pablo Sabater

   - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed

     - Christian Couder
     - Siddarth Asthana

Given that we already have enough mentors for both the projects and I 
have some bandwidth, I wonder if it would make sense to also propose the 
projects that we proposed for GSoC but were not actually taken up by 
anyone. The following are the projects:

   - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering

   - Enhance promisor-remote protocol for better-connected remotes

More details regarding the project can be found here: 
https://git.github.io/SoC-2026-Ideas/

Thoughts?

-- 
Sivaraam


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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-14  9:41       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
@ 2026-09-16 20:58         ` Christian Couder
  2026-09-17 11:07           ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Christian Couder @ 2026-09-16 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kaartic Sivaraam
  Cc: Pablo Sabater, git, Git at SFC, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/14/26 14:07, Pablo Sabater wrote:
> >
> > I've applied as co-mentor for the libification one, this way we have at
> > least one mentor for each project.
> >
>
> Cool, Pablo. I've approved your application and also Usman's. Right now
> we appear to have 2 mentors per project:
>
>    - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
>
>      - Usman Akinyemi
>      - Pablo Sabater
>
>    - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
>
>      - Christian Couder
>      - Siddarth Asthana

Great, thanks!

> Given that we already have enough mentors for both the projects and I
> have some bandwidth, I wonder if it would make sense to also propose the
> projects that we proposed for GSoC but were not actually taken up by
> anyone. The following are the projects:
>
>    - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering

I think it's indeed a good idea to propose this project, even if it
seems more difficult than the other projects we already propose.

>    - Enhance promisor-remote protocol for better-connected remotes

This one seems even more risky and difficult to me. I would suggest
only proposing the previous one.

Anyway as you will mentor it, feel free to propose the project you prefer.

Thanks,
Christian.

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-16 20:58         ` Christian Couder
@ 2026-09-17 11:07           ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  2026-09-19 13:43             ` Christian Couder
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Kaartic Sivaraam @ 2026-09-17 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Couder
  Cc: Pablo Sabater, git, Git at SFC, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On 9/17/26 02:28, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM Kaartic Sivaraam
>>> I've applied as co-mentor for the libification one, this way we have at
>>> least one mentor for each project.
>>>
>>
>> Cool, Pablo. I've approved your application and also Usman's. Right now
>> we appear to have 2 mentors per project:
>>
>>     - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
>>
>>       - Usman Akinyemi
>>       - Pablo Sabater
>>
>>     - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
>>
>>       - Christian Couder
>>       - Siddarth Asthana
> 
> Great, thanks!
> 

Just for clarity, this is tentative mentor allocation. We may need to 
shuffle it a little bit based on the applications we receive. We'll see 
how it goes.

>> Given that we already have enough mentors for both the projects and I
>> have some bandwidth, I wonder if it would make sense to also propose the
>> projects that we proposed for GSoC but were not actually taken up by
>> anyone. The following are the projects:
>>
>>     - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering
> 
> I think it's indeed a good idea to propose this project, even if it
> seems more difficult than the other projects we already propose.
>

Thank you, Christian! I have proposed the project. Kindly check and 
approve it at your convenience. We have until Oct. 5, 2026 at 4pm UTC to 
approve it.

If anyone is willing to co-mentor it, please chime in.

>>     - Enhance promisor-remote protocol for better-connected remotes
> 
> This one seems even more risky and difficult to me. I would suggest
> only proposing the previous one.
> 

Cool. I've skipped it for now.

> Anyway as you will mentor it, feel free to propose the project you prefer.
>

I will mentor it but may need some help / guidance from you as you have 
a more experience with this area of the code. I hope that's fine.

-- 
Sivaraam


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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-17 11:07           ` Kaartic Sivaraam
@ 2026-09-19 13:43             ` Christian Couder
  2026-10-05 18:19               ` Pablo Sabater
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Christian Couder @ 2026-09-19 13:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kaartic Sivaraam
  Cc: Pablo Sabater, git, Git at SFC, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just for clarity, this is tentative mentor allocation. We may need to
> shuffle it a little bit based on the applications we receive. We'll see
> how it goes.

Yeah, let's see later how it goes.

> >> Given that we already have enough mentors for both the projects and I
> >> have some bandwidth, I wonder if it would make sense to also propose the
> >> projects that we proposed for GSoC but were not actually taken up by
> >> anyone. The following are the projects:
> >>
> >>     - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering
> >
> > I think it's indeed a good idea to propose this project, even if it
> > seems more difficult than the other projects we already propose.
> >
>
> Thank you, Christian! I have proposed the project. Kindly check and
> approve it at your convenience. We have until Oct. 5, 2026 at 4pm UTC to
> approve it.

I have just approved it. Thanks again for proposing it.

> If anyone is willing to co-mentor it, please chime in.

Sure, it would be nice if we could get another co-mentor.

> I will mentor it but may need some help / guidance from you as you have
> a more experience with this area of the code. I hope that's fine.

Yeah, I will definitely help, and I can probably even co-mentor, but
let's see if someone else is interested first.

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-09-19 13:43             ` Christian Couder
@ 2026-10-05 18:19               ` Pablo Sabater
  2026-10-08 13:20                 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Pablo Sabater @ 2026-10-05 18:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Couder, Kaartic Sivaraam
  Cc: Pablo Sabater, git, Git at SFC, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM WEST, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
> <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
>

[...]

Hi all,

I wanted to let you know that I'm no longer sure I'll have the time
needed to properly co-mentor, and I'm worried about ruining an
intern's experience.

I'll still try to review patches and help where I can, but I think
it's better if I'm not an official co-mentor.

I'll wait before withdrawing on the Outreachy site, in case you'd like 
to reorganize things first.

Sorry for the change.

Regards,
Pablo

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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-10-05 18:19               ` Pablo Sabater
@ 2026-10-08 13:20                 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
  2026-10-08 14:05                   ` Usman Akinyemi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Kaartic Sivaraam @ 2026-10-08 13:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pablo Sabater, Christian Couder
  Cc: git, Git at SFC, Usman Akinyemi, Tian Yuchen

On 10/5/26 23:49, Pablo Sabater wrote:
> On Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM WEST, Christian Couder wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
>> <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wanted to let you know that I'm no longer sure I'll have the time
> needed to properly co-mentor, and I'm worried about ruining an
> intern's experience.
> 
> I'll still try to review patches and help where I can, but I think
> it's better if I'm not an official co-mentor.
>

No worries, Pablo. Thank you for letting us know earler.
> I'll wait before withdrawing on the Outreachy site, in case you'd like
> to reorganize things first.
> 

Cool. Feel free to withdraw, though. I think it shouldn't affect us from 
reorganizing.

With this change, I think we can stick to our mentoring capacity of 2. 
We can mentor 2 out of the following 3 projects:

   - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification

   - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed

   - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering

We previously had the following mentor allocation:

    - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification

      - Usman Akinyemi
      - Pablo Sabater

    - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed

      - Christian Couder
      - Siddarth Asthana

    - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering

      - Kaartic Sivaraam

With Pablo dropping off, I think we can keep mentor pair of Christian 
and Siddarth for the "Improve command arguments" project. I can pair 
with Usman to mentor the "Reduce global state" project.

If we get strong proposals for both the "promisor remote fetch ordering" 
project and the "Reduce global state" project, we might have to discuss 
how to break the tie. I suppose we can only pick one out of the two 
projects.

Feel free to share your thoughts.

-- 
Sivaraam


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* Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort
  2026-10-08 13:20                 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
@ 2026-10-08 14:05                   ` Usman Akinyemi
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Usman Akinyemi @ 2026-10-08 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kaartic Sivaraam
  Cc: Pablo Sabater, Christian Couder, git, Git at SFC, Tian Yuchen

>
> No worries, Pablo. Thank you for letting us know earler.
> > I'll wait before withdrawing on the Outreachy site, in case you'd like
> > to reorganize things first.
> >
>
> Cool. Feel free to withdraw, though. I think it shouldn't affect us from
> reorganizing.
>
> With this change, I think we can stick to our mentoring capacity of 2.
> We can mentor 2 out of the following 3 projects:
>
>    - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
>
>    - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
>
>    - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering
>
> We previously had the following mentor allocation:
>
>     - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
>
>       - Usman Akinyemi
>       - Pablo Sabater
>
>     - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
>
>       - Christian Couder
>       - Siddarth Asthana
>
>     - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering
>
>       - Kaartic Sivaraam
>
> With Pablo dropping off, I think we can keep mentor pair of Christian
> and Siddarth for the "Improve command arguments" project. I can pair
> with Usman to mentor the "Reduce global state" project.
Good.
>
> If we get strong proposals for both the "promisor remote fetch ordering"
> project and the "Reduce global state" project, we might have to discuss
> how to break the tie. I suppose we can only pick one out of the two
> projects.
Valid.
>
> Feel free to share your thoughts.
>
> --
> Sivaraam
>

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