Re: Git in GSoC 2025

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2025, 05:18 UTC
Message-ID: <fa9ad3c6-3b3c-4f3c-89c6-101ed1b51eb6@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Z6Xmrfut7jdsVAfg@pks.im>

Hi Patrick, Christian and all,

On 07/02/25 16:25, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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> One thought: From my point of view I'd strongly favor extending
> git-refs(1) over reftable support in the dumb HTTP transport. So if I
> had two applications, one for each topic, I'd lean towards applications
> for the former topic. That might easily cause unfairness in case
> students aren't aware of that.
> 
> So unless somebody else wants to be main-mentor in that project, I think
> we should either drop the HTTP transport tropic, or communicate our
> priorities clearly.

That makes sense. I've added a note to convey this clearly. Kindly check if the change in the following PR looks fine.

   https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/750/files

On 07/02/25 13:37, Christian Couder wrote:
 > Yeah, but we have time to decide on this. It seems to me that we can
 > still come up with new project ideas and possibly new mentors or
 > co-mentors until it's time for applicants to send their.application.

Indeed. More volunteer mentors and ideas are always welcome :-)

-- Sivaraam