[GSoC] Call for Mentors - Help Us Welcome More Contributors to Git

Kaartic SivaraamApr 10, 2026, 03:01 UTC on lore

Hi all,

We have great news and a small challenge — and we need your help.

This year, Git received 19 GSoC proposals, which speaks to the growing interest in contributing to our project. We have 5 strong project ideas [1] and are working to select as much candidates as possible (at the moment we're capped at 3-4). We're constrained not by the quality of proposals, but by mentor availability. Right now, we have only 6 mentors (3 primary, 3 co-mentors), and that limits how many promising contributors we can take on.

That's where you come in.

If you have experience contributing to Git and can spare some time this summer, we'd love to have you on board as a mentor or co-mentor. Mentoring is one of the most direct ways to grow our community — many of today's long-term contributors got their start through exactly this kind of guidance. Karthik, Ayush and Chandra are examples of GSoC contributors now turned into community members contributing outside GSoC.

Even stepping up as a co-mentor makes a real difference.

We also have one self-proposed project from a candidate this year [2]. If anyone is willing to mentor them specifically, that would be very welcome.

If you're interested or have questions, please reply to this thread. Every additional mentor means one more contributor we can nurture into a long-term member of the Git community.

Thank you!

[[ References ]]

[1]: https://git.github.io/SoC-2026-Ideas/ [2]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAOAgETPhYra3XrevHptFu0x-se8D9ovRtgfomwFbhq9rSTXu6A@mail.gmail.com/

-- Sivaraam

Christian CouderApr 10, 2026, 11:04 UTC in reply to Kaartic Sivaraam on lore

Re: [GSoC] Call for Mentors - Help Us Welcome More Contributors to Git

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 5:01 AM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> We have great news and a small challenge — and we need your help.
>
> This year, Git received 19 GSoC proposals,

Yeah, 19 valid proposals from applicants who spend time working on a micro-project, on a proper proposal that they submitted to the mailing list and often on a number of patches and reviews.

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> which speaks to the growing
> interest in contributing to our project. We have 5 strong project ideas
> [1] and are working to select as much candidates as possible (at the
> moment we're capped at 3-4). We're constrained not by the quality of
> proposals, but by mentor availability. Right now, we have only 6 mentors
> (3 primary, 3 co-mentors), and that limits how many promising
> contributors we can take on.
>
> That's where you come in.
>
> If you have experience contributing to Git and can spare some time this
> summer, we'd love to have you on board as a mentor or co-mentor.
> Mentoring is one of the most direct ways to grow our community — many of
> today's long-term contributors got their start through exactly this kind
> of guidance. Karthik, Ayush and Chandra are examples of GSoC
> contributors now turned into community members contributing outside GSoC.
>
> Even stepping up as a co-mentor makes a real difference.

Yeah, and co-mentoring can be very little work.

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> We also have one self-proposed project from a candidate this year [2].
> If anyone is willing to mentor them specifically, that would be very
> welcome.
>
> If you're interested or have questions, please reply to this thread.
> Every additional mentor means one more contributor we can nurture into a
> long-term member of the Git community.
>
> Thank you!

Thanks.