Re: [Outreachy] My Final Application

>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 11:48:39PM +0100, Chizoba ODINAKA wrote:
>
> Thanks for your application! If you haven't done so, please don't forget
> to also enter it online via Outreachy.
>
> [snip]
> > ## Timeline
> >
> > Phase 1  (December 9 - December 30)
> > Community bonding. Talk with mentors. Read Documentation.
> > Write backlog.
> >
> > Phase 2  (December 31 - January 27)
> > Begin migrating unittests to use Clar framework. Send patches
> > implementing the migration, get reviews, make changes based on
> > mentors and community recommendations.
> >
> > Phase 3 (January 28 - February 25)
> > Look at implement additional assert functions for Git-specific types
> >
> > Final phase (February 26 - March 7)
> > Working with clar upstream to improve shortcomings discovered during
> > the integration of Git with Clar.
>
> It's somewhat funny that your timeline mentions backfilling missing
> functionality _after_ migrating the unit tests. It's likely that some of
> the unit tests will need to use such functionality. So you'll likely
> have to:
>
>   - Investigate the next batch of unit tests to convert.
>
>   - Figure out whether these require functionality not yet present in
>     either clar or our wrappers thereof.
>
>   - Upstream potentially missing features.
>
>   - Migrate the tests.
>
>   - Send the patches for review and refine them based on feedback.
>
> This would be the core cycle of your work, and you'd probably repeat it
> multiple times.
>
> Patrick