Re: Git in GSoC 2025

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2025, 05:44 UTC
Message-ID: <b784f612-4b6b-414a-9742-86611c50c55f@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr04vzyz9.fsf@gitster.g>

Hi Patrick and Junio,

On 22/01/25 02:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> 
>> I was wondering whether it might make sense to also move the list of
>> microprojects into the Git project itself, e.g. as something like
>> "Documentation/Projects.txt". This would make it easier for us to update
>> the list of long-running projects whenever a new project is added and
>> makes it easier for people to discover it.
>>
>> It would also help to document consensus in the Git project. The file
>> would likely not always be 100% accurate, but it'd probably be more so
>> compared to tracking it out of our tree.
> 
> I am OK with the general idea, with one condition.  Each item in the
> list should have clear expiration date that makes it automatically
> eligible to be dropped from there.  Another uncurated list of random
> things is not what I want to add to and carry in my tree (the other
> uncurated list of random things being the set of topic branches that
> go stale without hitting 'next').
>

Understood. We could certainly curate it from time to time. I wonder how we could set the timeline for a microproject idea, though. Would it make sense to fix a rough timeline such as 1 year or so and remove any idea whose age is more than the same?

Also, the current list of ideas could roughly be seen here:

 
https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/2025-microprojects/SoC-2025-Microprojects.md#ideas-for-microprojects

The topics are:

   - Fix Sign Comparison Warnings in Git's Codebase

   - Modernize Test Path Checking in Git's Test Suite

   - Add more builtin patterns for userdiff

   - Replace a run_command*() call by direct calls to C functions

   - Avoid suppressing git's exit code in test scripts

   - Use unsigned integral type for collection of bits.

   - Modernize a test script

Do share your thoughts on which of these you find being relevant currently. That would help in preparing the first version of the in-tree project ideas list.

-- Sivaraam