[GSoC] Applicant Introduction, Microproject Selection

Jack McGuinness· Apr 1, 2022, 21:29 UTC · lore

Hi,

My name is Jack McGuinness, I'm an undergraduate at U.C. Merced, majoring in Computer Science & Engineering. I very recently found out about Google Summer of Code, and as someone who has been very interested in the concepts of open-source software for a while, I thought it would be a great opportunity to get involved and start learning more. The git-scm organization immediately stuck out to me, due to both its widespread use and my personal use. I've looked through the idea list and I plan to apply for the "Unify ref-filter formats with other pretty formats" project. In preparation for this, I want to do the "Modernize a test script" microproject, but I wasn't sure if someone else was working on this already, so following the recommendation from the description, I want to instead modernize t4202. However, I want to check beforehand that someone else isn't already working on this, or if there is a better test script I could modernize.

Thanks for your time, Jack

Christian Couder· Apr 5, 2022, 12:01 UTC · re: Jack McGuinness · lore

Re: [GSoC] Applicant Introduction, Microproject Selection

Hi Jack,

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:33 AM Jack McGuinness <jmcguinness2@ucmerced.edu> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> My name is Jack McGuinness, I'm an undergraduate at U.C. Merced, majoring in Computer Science & Engineering. I very recently found out about Google Summer of Code, and as someone who has been very interested in the concepts of open-source software for a while, I thought it would be a great opportunity to get involved and start learning more. The git-scm organization immediately stuck out to me, due to both its widespread use and my personal use. I've looked through the idea list and I plan to apply for the "Unify ref-filter formats with other pretty formats" project.

Thanks for your interest in Git and in this project!

> In preparation for this, I want to do the "Modernize a test script" microproject, but I wasn't sure if someone else was working on this already, so following the recommendation from the description, I want to instead modernize t4202. However, I want to check beforehand that someone else isn't already working on this, or if there is a better test script I could modernize.

From a quick look at the mailing list archive, it looks like no one else is working on modernizing t4202.

Thanks, Christian.