Re: Git in Outreachy?

>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 6:31 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
> <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 07-09-2020 00:26, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:>
> > >> I would appreciate help to find project ideas though. Are there still
> > >> scripts that are worth converting to C (excluding git-bisect.sh and
> > >> git-submodule.sh that are still worked on)?
> > >
> > > I think Dscho's e-mail linked below gives a nice overview of the various
> > > scripts and their likely status as of Jan2020:
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001301154170.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/
> > >
> > > I'm guessing only the status of submodule has changed as it's being
> > > worked on now.
> >
> > After giving it a second thought, I believe I should take back my word
> > about the git-submodule status changing. There still seems to be some
> > work left for it.
>
> Yeah, there is some work left, but Shourya said he was interested in
> continuing to work on it.

> > To be clear,
> >
> > - there's 'add', whose conversion is currently stalled [1]
>
> Yeah, but it hasn't been stalled for a long time, and sometimes it
> takes time after the GSoC or Outreachy period for former GSoC students
> or Outreachy interns to resume their work.
>
> > - there's 'update', which still has a decent amount of code [2]
> >   in the shell script.
> > - we still have to complete the conversion completely converting
> >   moving the rest of the bits from `git-submodule.sh` to C which is
> >   mostly just the option parsing. This might be more trickier than
> >   it sounds as we would've to ensure the we don't accidentally
> >   change behaviour of the options when moving the option parsing to C.
> >
> >   There's also an e-mail from Junio which is relevant [3]
> >
> > I'm not sure if this would be enough for a complete project on it's own.
> > I'm also not sure whether 'add' would get converted in the meantime. In
> > any case, I believe we could add a few other small refactoring projects
> > to make up for the rest of the period. For instance,
> >
> > - Replace more instances of `the_index` and `the_repository`
> >   (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/379)
> >
> > - Turn the `fetch_if_missing` global into a field of `struct repository`
> >   (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/251)
> >
> > - Possibly others from #leftoverbits
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Yeah, without 'add' we would have enough related issues for another
> project. I would prefer though that we wait for at least 3 months
> without any progress before suggesting them as a project. That's what
> we usually do and I think it's the right thing to do.