[GSoC] Welcoming our 2024 contributors and thanking our applicants

Hello all,

As you may be aware, the results for GSoC 2024 have been officially announced[1]. We have 3 contributors contributing to Git this year[2]. They are as follows:

   - Chandra Pratap

     Project: Move and improve reftable tests in the unit
              testing framework
     Mentors: Christian Couder and Patrick Steinhardt

   - Ghanshyam Thakkar

     Project: Move existing tests to a unit testing framework
     Mentors: Christian Couder and Kaartic Sivaraam

   - Jialuo She

     Project: Implement consistency check for refs
     Mentors: Patrick Steinhardt and Karthik Nayak

Let us welcome them and wish them a good summer of contributing to Git via GSoC!

Thank you to all the contibutors who applied to Git this year! It was tough to choose from multiple potential contributors who all were good in their own respect. Hoping to see you around continuing your contributions to the Git community in some way :-)

[[ References ]]

[1]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/05/google-summer-of-code-2024-accepted-contributors-announced.html [2]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024/organizations/git

-- Sivaraam