Re: [ANNOUNCE] GSoC 2020 Students and Projects

From: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com>
Date: May 11, 2020, 03:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20200511032932.GA1268@Abhishek-Arch>
In-Reply-To: <999d4480-7d72-3ca1-f3ba-e3b08c5089a6@gmail.com>

Greetings everyone!

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:21:08AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

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> Hi Philip,
> 
> You can find more details about the proposals in the the final draft which
> were sent to the mailing list. You can find the links to corresponding
> mailing list e-mails, inline.
> 
> On 10-05-2020 15:39, Matthias Aßhauer wrote:
> > Since my mail client mangled the previous mail badly I'm sending
> > it again with slight changes to hopefully prevent the mangling.
> > 
> > These modified links should be accessible without any login.
> > 
> > "Implement Generation Number v2" from Abhishek Kumar will be
> > co-mentored by Jakub Narebski and Derrick Stolee.
> > 
> > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6140278689234944
> > 
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200326101520.GA19326@Abhishek-Arch/

To add more to this:

Initially the project aimed to explore alternative methods to make Git faster, such as using min-post labelling and more involved variants like GRAIL [1], FERRARI [2].

After much discussion [3], implementing corrected commit date and exploring alternatives were broken down to two different projects - with the understanding that the exploration is closer to 'Research Experience for Undergraduates' than a GSoC project.

However, I had been working on a proposal [4] on the exploration. I describe the methods, talk about their characteristics such as memory usage, preprocessing time, performance on positive and negative queries.

You should also refer to Dr. Jakub's resources at the end of SoC 2020 Ideas page [5]. I would recommend starting with the Dr. Jakub's slides and 'Pruning Based on DFS Numbering'.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225756202_GRAIL_A_scalable_index_for_reachability_queries_in_very_large_graphs [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3375 [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/7d6a84c7-6b16-c2a9-11a1-3397422064d1@gmail.com/ [2]: https://github.com/abhishekkumar2718/GSoC20/blob/master/graph_labelling.md [3]: https://git.github.io/SoC-2020-Ideas/

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> 
> > "Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats"
> > from Hariom Verma will be co-mentored by Heba Waly and
> > Christian Couder.
> > 
> > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4593212745842688
> > 
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/CA+CkUQ966swTrR7D2vxgQ2ZA3E=Le=u8yvEAopOsphoCWGgDeg@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> > "Convert submodule to builtin" from Shourya Shukla will be
> > co-mentored by Kaartic Sivaraam and Christian Couder.
> > 
> > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6451304047575040
> > 
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200325185053.10274-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com/
> 
> -- 
> Sivaraam

Regards Abhishek