Re: Git in GSoC 2022?

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 1/26/2022 1:29 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> If we are interested in participating we need:
> 
>   - Volunteers who are wiling to act as mentors. I would be
>     willing to be volunteer myself as a mentor for one student.
>  
>   - Microprojects: I believe we could repurpose the Outreachy
>     microproject ideas[2] for GSoC too. If others have suggestions
>     for microproject ideas, please share them.
> 
>   - Project ideas: There are two mentioned in SoC-2021-Ideas[3]
>     but both were picked by GSoC students the previous year. So,
>     we would need new ones this year.

One project that could be interesting for GSoC (and the timing
should work out) is to complete the sparse index integrations for
some of the less critical commands. Some examples include 'git mv'
and 'git rm', I think.

This of course depends on some ongoing work to integrate more of
the critical commands that we implemented early in microsoft/git,
such as Victoria's current series which is leading to a 'git stash'
integration and a series I have waiting in the wings for a 'git
sparse-checkout' integration.

However, I think we have a decent paved-path for a new contributor
to jump in and get started on the remaining commands. The granularity
means that the project has multiple milestones that can be hit
without an all-in-one series.

>   - Multiple Sizes of Projects: In 2021, project size was reduced
>     (~175 hours). This year, both medium sized projects (~175 hours)
>     and large projects (~350 hours) are supported.
> 
>     GSoC organizers recommend communities to have both medium _and_
>     large size projects.

I think this project would fit in the "medium" category.

Thanks,
-Stolee