From: Kaartic Sivaraam Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:07:33 GMT Subject: Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 9/17/26 02:28, Christian Couder wrote: > 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. >> 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. >> - 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. -- Sivaraam