[ANNOUNCE] GSoC 2020 Students and Projects

Hi everyone,

As you might already know, the following proposals and students have been officially accepted to be part of Google Summer of Code 2020:

- "Implement Generation Number v2"
(https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/project/6140278689234944/overview/)
from Abhishek
Kumar will be co-mentored by Jakub Narebski and Derrick Stolee.

- "Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats"
(https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/project/4593212745842688/overview/)
from Hariom Verma will be co-mentored by Heba Waly and Christian
Couder.

- "Convert submodule to builtin"
(https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/project/6451304047575040/overview/)
from Shourya Shukla will be co-mentored by Kaartic Sivaraam and
Christian Couder.

Congratulations to Shourya, Hariom and Abhishek for their work and dedication so far!

We had many more proposals and students working on micro-projects this year compared to previous years.

Thanks to everyone who worked on micro-projects and on proposals with the goal of being selected! Unfortunately it was not possible to accept more than 3 students and proposals this year.

Thanks to the mentors who accepted to dedicate time and effort to allow the above proposals and students to be selected!

Thanks also to everyone who helped review the micro-projects and the proposals, and guide the students!

Thanks Google for organizing and sponsoring this event!

Looking forward to another great Google Summer of Code!

Best, Christian.

Hi Christian,

On 10/05/2020 04:55, Christian Couder wrote:

Do we need special login's to view the proposals you linked to?

I'd at least like to follow along the technical details of the generation number development.

Philip

These modified links should be accessible without any login. > - 
"Implement Generation Number v2" 
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6140278689234944 
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/project/6140278689234944/overview/> 
 > from Abhishek > Kumar will be co-mentored by Jakub Narebski and 
Derrick Stolee. > > - "Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty 
formats" https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4593212745842688 
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/project/4593212745842688/overview/> 
 > from Hariom Verma will be co-mentored by Heba Waly and Christian > 
Couder. > > - "Convert submodule to builtin" 
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6451304047575040 
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/project/6451304047575040/overview/> 
 > from Shourya Shukla will be co-mentored by Kaartic Sivaraam and > 
Christian Couder.

Since my mail client mangled the previous mail badly I'm sending it again with slight changes to hopefully prevent the mangling.

These modified links should be accessible without any login.

"Implement Generation Number v2" from Abhishek Kumar will be co-mentored by Jakub Narebski and Derrick Stolee.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6140278689234944

"Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats" from Hariom Verma will be co-mentored by Heba Waly and Christian Couder.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4593212745842688

"Convert submodule to builtin" from Shourya Shukla will be co-mentored by Kaartic Sivaraam and Christian Couder.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6451304047575040

Best regards

Matthias

Hi Philip,

You can find more details about the proposals in the the final draft which were sent to the mailing list. You can find the links to corresponding mailing list e-mails, inline.

On 10-05-2020 15:39, Matthias Aßhauer wrote:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200326101520.GA19326@Abhishek-Arch/

https://lore.kernel.org/git/CA+CkUQ966swTrR7D2vxgQ2ZA3E=Le=u8yvEAopOsphoCWGgDeg@mail.gmail.com/

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200325185053.10274-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com/

Greetings everyone!

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:21:08AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

To add more to this:

Initially the project aimed to explore alternative methods to make Git faster, such as using min-post labelling and more involved variants like GRAIL [1], FERRARI [2].

After much discussion [3], implementing corrected commit date and exploring alternatives were broken down to two different projects - with the understanding that the exploration is closer to 'Research Experience for Undergraduates' than a GSoC project.

However, I had been working on a proposal [4] on the exploration. I describe the methods, talk about their characteristics such as memory usage, preprocessing time, performance on positive and negative queries.

You should also refer to Dr. Jakub's resources at the end of SoC 2020 Ideas page [5]. I would recommend starting with the Dr. Jakub's slides and 'Pruning Based on DFS Numbering'.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225756202_GRAIL_A_scalable_index_for_reachability_queries_in_very_large_graphs [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3375 [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/7d6a84c7-6b16-c2a9-11a1-3397422064d1@gmail.com/ [2]: https://github.com/abhishekkumar2718/GSoC20/blob/master/graph_labelling.md [3]: https://git.github.io/SoC-2020-Ideas/

Regards Abhishek

Hi Philip,

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:32 AM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> wrote:

Yeah, sorry about the links I sent, and thanks to Matthias, Kaartic and Abhishek for providing better information.

Best, Christian.