Re: Git in Outreachy?

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2021, 04:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2SNyCj6Weo4EeHt0Z-CW9CEJbQbzmU7jhwfJdNW9CrYQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YTGLLQCvlnT17jo8@nand.local>

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:40 AM Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@github.com> wrote:

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> Are we interested in participating in the December 2021 round of
> Outreachy? September 3rd (tomorrow at 4pm UTC) is the initial community
> application deadline.
>
> Christian, Peff, and I discussed off-list that we would each try to pull
> together funding for one intern from GitHub and GitLab respectively.

Yeah, and we submitted an initial community application.

> If we're interested, the project submission deadline is September 23rd
> [1]. By then, we'd need:
>
>   - Volunteers to act as mentors

I am ok with co-mentoring 2 interns.

>   - Updates to our applicant materials on git.github.io (project ideas,
>     as well as potential microprojects).

About microprojects, I have been wondering if there are run_command*() calls that could be replaced by direct calls to C functions like what Junio did in ffcb4e94d3 (bisect: do not run show-branch just to show the current commit, 2021-07-27), and if that could make a good microproject.

About project ideas, maybe continuing Hariom Verma's GSoC 2020 "Unify ref-filter formats with other \-\-pretty formats" project could be and idea, though maybe it could interact too much with ZheNing Hu continuing his GSoC 2021 "Use ref-filter formats in `git cat-file`" project.