Re: Git in GSoC 2025

> Hi Christian, Karthik, Patrick, Jialuo and all,
>
> On 05/02/25 18:50, Christian Couder wrote:
>> Hi Kaartic and all,
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
>> <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have just added myself as a possible mentor. If possible I'd like to
>> just co-mentor this project and someone else to be the main mentor for
>> this project.
>>
>  > ...
>>
>> I have just added myself as a possible mentor. If possible I'd like to
>> be the main mentor for this project.
>>
>
> Thank you for adding yourself as a potential mentor!
>
> With this, it seems to me like we could at the max. accept 3 students
>
>>> Note that I haven't assigned any mentors / co-mentors for each project.
>>> I suppose we could assign that based on the applications we receive and
>>> the ideas that we end up selecting.
>>>
>>> Based on Christian's inputs, we should be able to distribute
>>> projects among mentors well.
>>
>> Yeah, I hope it will be possible to distribute projects among mentors well.
>>
>
> Indeed. From all of your inputs I was able to come to the following
> allocation of mentor / co-mentor.
>
> -- 8< --
>
> Consolidate ref-related functionality into git-refs
>
> - Mentor: Patrick
> - Co-mentor: Jialuo / Christian
>
> Refactoring in order to reduce Git’s global state
>
> - Mentor: Christian
> - Co-mentor: Karthik / Jialuo
>
> Machine-Readable Repository Information Query Tool
>
> - Mentor: Karthik
> - Co-mentor: Patrick
>
> Implement support for reftables in “dumb” HTTP transport
>
> - Mentor: Patrick
> - Co-mentor: Karthik
>
> -- >8 --
>
> Let me know if this sounds fine to all of you. So, I suppose we could
> pick a maximum of 3 projects but we cannot pick both "Consolidate
> ref-related functionality into git-refs" and "Implement support
> for reftables in “dumb” HTTP transport" at the same time as Patrick
> only prefers to be mentor in one project.
>

>
> Based on this, I'll tweak the ideas page to mention that we could
> pick a max of 3 candidates.
>
>
> BTW, I've just submitted Git's application for GSoC. We should know
> by February 26 about the selection result.
>