Re: Git in GSoC 2022?

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2022, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID: <aa324a28-2336-c7b0-c1b7-ca4d440d9ff5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ca51848c-d3e1-7f85-0268-ab4c999ea2bd@gmail.com>

On 27/01/22 8:09 pm, Derrick Stolee wrote:

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> On 1/26/2022 1:29 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
>> If we are interested in participating we need:
>>
>>    - Volunteers who are wiling to act as mentors. I would be
>>      willing to be volunteer myself as a mentor for one student.
>>   
>>    - Microprojects: I believe we could repurpose the Outreachy
>>      microproject ideas[2] for GSoC too. If others have suggestions
>>      for microproject ideas, please share them.
>>
>>    - Project ideas: There are two mentioned in SoC-2021-Ideas[3]
>>      but both were picked by GSoC students the previous year. So,
>>      we would need new ones this year.
> 
> One project that could be interesting for GSoC (and the timing
> should work out) is to complete the sparse index integrations for
> some of the less critical commands. Some examples include 'git mv'
> and 'git rm', I think.
> 
> This of course depends on some ongoing work to integrate more of
> the critical commands that we implemented early in microsoft/git,
> such as Victoria's current series which is leading to a 'git stash'
> integration and a series I have waiting in the wings for a 'git
> sparse-checkout' integration.
> 
> However, I think we have a decent paved-path for a new contributor
> to jump in and get started on the remaining commands. The granularity
> means that the project has multiple milestones that can be hit
> without an all-in-one series.
>

Sounds good.

As I mentioned up thread, you could feel free to share the project description here or open a PR by adding it directly to this document:

   https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/SoC-2022-Ideas.md

   (note: currently returns a 404; it should work when the
    related PR [pr-1] is merged)

Just to be sure, would you be willing to mentor in case a student picks this project?

[pr-1]: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/540

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>>    - Multiple Sizes of Projects: In 2021, project size was reduced
>>      (~175 hours). This year, both medium sized projects (~175 hours)
>>      and large projects (~350 hours) are supported.
>>
>>      GSoC organizers recommend communities to have both medium _and_
>>      large size projects.
> 
> I think this project would fit in the "medium" category.
>

-- 
Sivaraam