Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2026, 11:07 UTC
Message-ID: <fbed7a60-57ab-439b-a550-2d2b76ff24c0@gmail.com>
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On 9/17/26 02:28, Christian Couder wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM Kaartic Sivaraam
>>> 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:
>>
>>     - Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
>>
>>       - Usman Akinyemi
>>       - Pablo Sabater
>>
>>     - Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
>>
>>       - Christian Couder
>>       - Siddarth Asthana
> 
> Great, thanks!
>

Just for clarity, this is tentative mentor allocation. We may need to shuffle it a little bit based on the applications we receive. We'll see how it goes.

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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:
>>
>>     - 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.
>

Thank you, Christian! I have proposed the project. Kindly check and approve it at your convenience. We have until Oct. 5, 2026 at 4pm UTC to approve it.

If anyone is willing to co-mentor it, please chime in.

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>>     - 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.
>

Cool. I've skipped it for now.

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

I will mentor it but may need some help / guidance from you as you have a more experience with this area of the code. I hope that's fine.

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Sivaraam