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GSoC Org Applications for 2025 are open now[1]. > > They are due before Tuesday, February 11 at 1800 UTC. It's good to see that > > few contributors have already started working on microprojects this year :-) > > > > I could help as an Org Admin like previous years. I prefer not to > > volunteer as a mentor this time owing to other commitments, though. > > Thanks for your work, as usual! > > > There are no noticeable changes to the program this year. > > > > The GSoC contributor application period is March 24 - April 8, so > > (co-)mentors and org admins are already welcome to volunteer. As usual, > > we also need project ideas to refresh our idea page from last year > > (https://git.github.io/SoC-2024-Ideas/). Feel free to share your > > thoughts and discuss. It would be great if we could come up with a good mix > > of small, medium and large projects. > > > > Do feel free to ask if there's anything that needs to be clarified. > > > > Just like previous year, there will be a GSoC Meetup in Brussels during > > FOSDEM weekend on Saturday, February 1st in the evening. If you are > > around, interested and haven't received the link to register directly > > from Google, let me know so I can send it to you. > > > > [1]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/google-summer-of-code-2025-is-here.html > > I'd be happy to mentor this year again. A couple of ideas: > > - Consolidate ref-related functionality into git-refs(1). This would > mean that we add new subcommands "list", "get", "exists", "write" > and "optimize" to it so that we have a central place to manage refs > overall. This would replace git-update-ref(1), git-for-each-ref(1) > git-show-ref(1) as well as git-pack-ref(1), which would of course > stay around for the foreseeable future. > > - Refactor "environment.c" such that more of its global state is > instead stored locally, e.g. as part of `struct repository` or > `struct repository_settings`. I think this is a good project which is not too difficult for a student to finish. By refactoring "environment.c", we could slowly drop the global variable "the_repository". I'd like to co-mentor with this idea if possible. Thanks, Jialuo