Re: [Outreachy] My Final Application

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Oct 28, 2024, 06:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Zx8ouGN5ln_VtsHw@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <CACwP9aqFY6kPOSzv2JWWZejwAiYbMEJJx2qxomEnyxnxKFvkvA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 11:48:39PM +0100, Chizoba ODINAKA wrote:

Thanks for your application! If you haven't done so, please don't forget to also enter it online via Outreachy.

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> ## Timeline
> 
> Phase 1  (December 9 - December 30)
> Community bonding. Talk with mentors. Read Documentation.
> Write backlog.
> 
> Phase 2  (December 31 - January 27)
> Begin migrating unittests to use Clar framework. Send patches
> implementing the migration, get reviews, make changes based on
> mentors and community recommendations.
> 
> Phase 3 (January 28 - February 25)
> Look at implement additional assert functions for Git-specific types
> 
> Final phase (February 26 - March 7)
> Working with clar upstream to improve shortcomings discovered during
> the integration of Git with Clar.

It's somewhat funny that your timeline mentions backfilling missing functionality _after_ migrating the unit tests. It's likely that some of the unit tests will need to use such functionality. So you'll likely have to:

  - Investigate the next batch of unit tests to convert.

  - Figure out whether these require functionality not yet present in
    either clar or our wrappers thereof.

  - Upstream potentially missing features.

  - Migrate the tests.

  - Send the patches for review and refine them based on feedback.

This would be the core cycle of your work, and you'd probably repeat it multiple times.

Patrick