Re: Git in GSoC 2024

[Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>]

Hi Patrick,

On 31 January 2024 6:40:36 pm IST, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:08:53AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:38:48AM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the tests in t0032-reftable-unittest.sh should be ported over to
>> the new unit test framework eventually, and I think that this might be a
>> good GSoC project indeed.
>> 

Nice. Good to hear that.

>> If there is interest I'd also be happy to draft up some more topics in
>> the context of refs and the reftable backend. I'm sure there should be
>> some topics here that would be a good fit for the GSoC project, and I'd
>> be happy to mentor any such project in this context.
>

Great. Thanks for your interest in willing to mentor!

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/

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 noticed that the starting period falls right into my honeymoon from
>June 17th until July 19th. This unfortunately makes it quite a lot
>harder for me to mentor projects alone. Still, I'd be happy to co-mentor
>or help out in other ways.
>

I too don't believe your vacation is going to be a deal breaker for you 
being a mentor. It should be totally fine given that we get a backup 
mentor who is also willing to mentor the candidate. (side note: I myself 
have no knowledge about refs backends. So, I suppose I might not be able 
to help co-mentor this one).

Reg. the timline [1] Jun 17th won't be much of the start. The community 
bonding period starts May 1. Many contributors typically start dipping 
their toes into their project right away. So, you would have ample time 
before the start of the vacation to set the contributor up and going 
with the project.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline

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Sivaraam