Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 16, 2026, 20:58 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 9/14/26 14:07, Pablo Sabater wrote:
> >
> > I've applied as co-mentor for the libification one, this way we have at
> > least one mentor for each project.
> >
>
> Cool, Pablo. I've approved your application and also Usman's. Right now
> we appear to have 2 mentors per project:
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>    - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
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>      - Usman Akinyemi
>      - Pablo Sabater
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>    - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
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>      - Christian Couder
>      - Siddarth Asthana

Great, thanks!

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> Given that we already have enough mentors for both the projects and I
> have some bandwidth, I wonder if it would make sense to also propose the
> projects that we proposed for GSoC but were not actually taken up by
> anyone. The following are the projects:
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>    - Implement promisor remote fetch ordering

I think it's indeed a good idea to propose this project, even if it seems more difficult than the other projects we already propose.

>    - Enhance promisor-remote protocol for better-connected remotes

This one seems even more risky and difficult to me. I would suggest only proposing the previous one.

Anyway as you will mentor it, feel free to propose the project you prefer.

Thanks, Christian.