Re: Git in GSoC 2025

From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2025, 11:53 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZT7gOH-eu9gKDRyYJvzSDQ8pmMYqBxXFRdxbNN4iKZWvw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cd90cf17-6113-4634-a774-6df707b73e95@gmail.com>

Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello Christian, Karthik, Jialuo, Patrick and all,
>
> On 28/01/25 23:00, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for suggesting these ideas, Patrick! I've incorporated them
>> into a draft ideas page for now. You can see them here:
>>
>> https://git.github.io/SoC-2025-Ideas/
>>
>> Kindly suggest any corrections to the description, project size /
>> difficulty as necessary. I've mentioned potential mentors based on what
>> I'm aware of so far.
>>
>> Patrick, Christian and Karthik, kindly mention the ideas that you're
>> interested to mentor.
>>
>
> Gentle reminder that the ideas list needs completion. Specifically, the
> following ideas only list Patrick as a potential mentor:
>

Sorry for the delay here, was OOO for a bit. Thanks for following up :)

>    - Refactoring in order to reduce Git’s global state
>

I've worked a bit on this and would be happy to mentor or co-mentor here.

>    - Machine-Readable Repository Information Query Tool
>

Here too, I'm happy to co-mentor or mentor here.

So I could co-mentor one of these with Patrick, as I can cover when he's OOO.

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> The following idea mentions Karthik and Patrick as potential
> mentors.
>
>    - Implement support for reftables in “dumb” HTTP transport
>

I don't have a bunch of knowledge here, so I could co-mentor but not mentor by myself.

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> The following idea mentions Jialuo and Patrick as potential
> mentors.
>
>    - Consolidate ref-related functionality into git-refs
>
> It would helpful if you all could chime in to let me know if the
> existing allocation is fine and to what other projects you need
> to be mentioned as potential mentors.
>
> --
> Sivaraam

Overall, I should be able to cover a maximum of 2 projects (with at least one as a co-mentor).

Thanks for putting this together.

Karthik