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Starting on a microproject for GSoC

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MNMoritz Neeb <lists@moritzneeb.de>
Date
Jan 28, 2016, 00:40 UTC
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Hi git developers,

the next Google Summer of Code is not too far away. I expect git to apply for it and hopefully have some student spots which in turn I plan to apply. It was recommended elsewhere and on this list as well, that it is beneficial to engage with the community early, that's why I am writing to you already now, before all this formal stuff has begun.

Before I may introduce myself: I'm a Computer Science student in Germany, coming towards the end of my Masters. I am an enthusiastic git user that's why I'd like to give something back. This would be my first time to actually contribute to a FOSS project and I am quite excited (also a bit frightened ;)).

As the list of available microprojects 2016 is still to be created, I might need your help in finding a project to work on. I started to dig through the archives along items of the list of 2015 [0] and so far found out the following:

The first task, to make "git -C '' cmd" not to barf seems to be solved. I tried it with "git -C '' status" at least. I could not find the related patch, maybe it did use other keywords. I would be interested.

The second task, to allow "-" as a short-hand for "@{-1}" in more places seems to be still open for reset, although someone almost finished it (cf. $gmane/265417). I suppose just fixing/revising this would be kind of a too low hanging fruit? More interesting (also because I am a bit earlier) might be to unify everything, as suggested by Junio in $gmane/265260. Or implementing it for another branch command, e.g. rebase.

The other tasks I did not yet dig into.

If all of that is considered as not relevant, I might just go for a newer idea, like converting strbuf_getline_lf() callers to strbuf_getline(), as suggested in $gmane/284104.

Any thoughts?

A question regarding the process of "taking a task (or bug)" in general: Is it solely organized through the mailing list? Suppose I start to work on something, should I announce it to not risk work duplication? Does it happen often that more people accidentally work on the same task?

Best, Moritz

[0] http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Microprojects.html
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