[Outreachy] Introduce myself

Ananya Krishna Maram· Sep 30, 2018, 10:23 UTC · lore

Hi Git Community, Christian and Johannes,

My initial Outreachy got accepted. My name is Ananya Krishna(her), I am from south India. I completed my under-graduation. Due to some problems, I decided to stay back at home. And currently I would like to dedicate myself to learn from open communities.

During the school, I showed keen interest in operating systems and implemented most of the scheduling, synchronization and some sample examples in memory management. I also did a lot of assignments in bash scripting. In my 3rd year of Btech, I was introduced to this magical tool `git` and got flattened by how it made me to keep track of versions of my assignments. Having done a lot of assignment in C and bash scripting and keen interest to learn about working of git internals, I choose to contribute to this project. So I started observing the patches sent to git mailing list.

I am currently looking for first patch opportunities to git. I came across[1] and I will try to put maximum effort towards my goal and if I need some clarification of the problem statement I guess you guys or Outreachy mentors will be here to help me.

Thanks, Ananya.

 [1](https://git.github.io/SoC-2018-Microprojects/)

Christian Couder· Sep 30, 2018, 16:57 UTC · re: Ananya Krishna Maram · lore

Re: [Outreachy] Introduce myself

Hi Ananya,

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 5:53 PM Ananya Krishna Maram <ananyakittu1997@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Git Community, Christian and Johannes,
>
> My initial Outreachy got accepted.

Great! Welcome to the Git community!

[...]

> Having done a lot of assignment in C and
> bash scripting and keen interest to learn about working of git
> internals, I choose to contribute to this project. So I started
> observing the patches sent to git mailing list.

About possible projects I updated https://git.github.io/Outreachy-17/ but only the `git bisect` has been officially proposed as an Outreachy project. I hope Dscho (Johannes) will be ok to submit one of the 2 others soon and to register himself as a mentor or co-mentor on some of the projects.

> I am currently looking for first patch opportunities to git. I came
> across[1] and I will try to put maximum effort towards my goal and if
> I need some clarification of the problem statement I guess you guys or
> Outreachy mentors will be here to help me.

The micro-project page you found is not up-to-date, so some micro-projects we propose might have already been taken by GSoC students last winter/spring. Sorry we didn't update the page or create another one. Anyway there are some micro-projects there like "Add more builtin patterns for userdiff" that are still valid and still good small tasks to get started working on Git. And there are explanations about how you can search for micro-projects (especially how to search for #leftoverbits on the mailing list archive).

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Git, Christian.