[ANNOUNCE] Outreachy mentor sign-up deadline is Wednesday September 11th at 4pm UTC

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I signed up for Git as a mentoring community in the Outreachy December
> 2024 internship cohort. The deadline was September 6th at 4pm UTC and
> I think we will be able to change our mind later if we decide to not
> participate for some reason. So it was better to just sign-up.
> 
> I have also added a project with the title: "Finish adding a
> 'os-version' capability to Git protocol v2" that I am willing to
> mentor or co-mentor. I think it's possible to add more projects and to
> remove this one if we find better ones.
> 
> The mentor sign-up deadline is very soon too: Wednesday September 11th
> at 4pm UTC
> 
> So if you are interested in mentoring please sign-up. I think
> co-mentors might be able to sign-up later but I am not sure.
> 
> Tilda, please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Also please let us know if some companies might be willing to sponsor
> an Outreachy intern or Outreachy itself. Outreachy is part of the
> Software Freedom Conservancy (https://sfconservancy.org/) like the Git
> project.
> 
> See: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/

> On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 11:50:20AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I signed up for Git as a mentoring community in the Outreachy December
> > 2024 internship cohort. The deadline was September 6th at 4pm UTC and
> > I think we will be able to change our mind later if we decide to not
> > participate for some reason. So it was better to just sign-up.
> > 
> > I have also added a project with the title: "Finish adding a
> > 'os-version' capability to Git protocol v2" that I am willing to
> > mentor or co-mentor. I think it's possible to add more projects and to
> > remove this one if we find better ones.
> > 
> > The mentor sign-up deadline is very soon too: Wednesday September 11th
> > at 4pm UTC
> > 
> > So if you are interested in mentoring please sign-up. I think
> > co-mentors might be able to sign-up later but I am not sure.
> > 
> > Tilda, please correct me if I am wrong.
> > 
> > Also please let us know if some companies might be willing to sponsor
> > an Outreachy intern or Outreachy itself. Outreachy is part of the
> > Software Freedom Conservancy (https://sfconservancy.org/) like the Git
> > project.
> > 
> > See: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/
> 
> Thanks for organizing this! With the clar unit testing framework having
> landed I think it would be a nice project for Outreachy to convert (a
> subset of) our unit tests to that new framework.
> 
> There is still a bunch of work that I'm in the process of upstreaming
> [1][2][3][4] as well as a refactoring of the macros to make them
> typesafe that I'm currently preparing. But none of these changes should
> impact how the clar is used, so I would say that it is fine to queue up
> such a project.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/99 (MinGW and HPE support, merged)
> [2]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/100 (CI support for Windows)
> [3]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/101 (out-of-memory handling)
> [4]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/102 (selftests)

> > > The mentor sign-up deadline is very soon too: Wednesday September 11th
> > > at 4pm UTC
> > >
> > > So if you are interested in mentoring please sign-up. I think
> > > co-mentors might be able to sign-up later but I am not sure.

> > Thanks for organizing this! With the clar unit testing framework having
> > landed I think it would be a nice project for Outreachy to convert (a
> > subset of) our unit tests to that new framework.
> >
> > There is still a bunch of work that I'm in the process of upstreaming
> > [1][2][3][4] as well as a refactoring of the macros to make them
> > typesafe that I'm currently preparing. But none of these changes should
> > impact how the clar is used, so I would say that it is fine to queue up
> > such a project.

> On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 09:53:20AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
>> Thanks for organizing this! With the clar unit testing framework having
>> landed I think it would be a nice project for Outreachy to convert (a
>> subset of) our unit tests to that new framework.
>>
>> There is still a bunch of work that I'm in the process of upstreaming
>> [1][2][3][4] as well as a refactoring of the macros to make them
>> typesafe that I'm currently preparing. But none of these changes should
>> impact how the clar is used, so I would say that it is fine to queue up
>> such a project.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/99 (MinGW and HPE support, merged)
>> [2]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/100 (CI support for Windows)
>> [3]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/101 (out-of-memory handling)
>> [4]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/102 (selftests)
> 
> I forgot to say: I'd be happy to mentor or co-mentor such a project.

> On 09/09/2024 09:00, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 09:53:20AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > > Thanks for organizing this! With the clar unit testing framework having
> > > landed I think it would be a nice project for Outreachy to convert (a
> > > subset of) our unit tests to that new framework.
> > > 
> > > There is still a bunch of work that I'm in the process of upstreaming
> > > [1][2][3][4] as well as a refactoring of the macros to make them
> > > typesafe that I'm currently preparing. But none of these changes should
> > > impact how the clar is used, so I would say that it is fine to queue up
> > > such a project.
> > > 
> > > Patrick
> > > 
> > > [1]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/99 (MinGW and HPE support, merged)
> > > [2]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/100 (CI support for Windows)
> > > [3]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/101 (out-of-memory handling)
> > > [4]: https://github.com/clar-test/clar/pull/102 (selftests)
> > 
> > I forgot to say: I'd be happy to mentor or co-mentor such a project.
> I'd be happy to co-mentor a project like that
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Phillip