Re: Git in GSoC 2024

>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On 31 January 2024 6:40:36 pm IST, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:08:53AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:38:48AM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes, the tests in t0032-reftable-unittest.sh should be ported over to
> >> the new unit test framework eventually, and I think that this might be a
> >> good GSoC project indeed.
> >>
>
> Nice. Good to hear that.
>
> >> If there is interest I'd also be happy to draft up some more topics in
> >> the context of refs and the reftable backend. I'm sure there should be
> >> some topics here that would be a good fit for the GSoC project, and I'd
> >> be happy to mentor any such project in this context.
> >
>
> Great. Thanks for your interest in willing to mentor!
>
> I created a fairly rough SoC ideas page for now including a barebones
> information about the unit test migration idea:
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> https://git.github.io/SoC-2024-Ideas/
>
> Note well that the existing idea's description is far from complete and
> I mostly just cooked it up to serve as a template for how the idea entry
> could look like. Kindly contribute towards elaborating the same :-)
>
> Also, feel free to suggest ideas you have around refs and reftable
> backed, Patrick. Those would be helpful.
>
> >I noticed that the starting period falls right into my honeymoon from
> >June 17th until July 19th. This unfortunately makes it quite a lot
> >harder for me to mentor projects alone. Still, I'd be happy to co-mentor
> >or help out in other ways.
> >
>
> I too don't believe your vacation is going to be a deal breaker for you
> being a mentor. It should be totally fine given that we get a backup
> mentor who is also willing to mentor the candidate. (side note: I myself
> have no knowledge about refs backends. So, I suppose I might not be able
> to help co-mentor this one).