Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2026, 13:20 UTC
Message-ID: <077dca6e-27dc-43fe-9acc-20cf53651b42@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <DLX41DP10SBK.3JNC50ICRW1RO@gmail.com>

On 10/5/26 23:49, Pablo Sabater wrote:

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> 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