On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:48 AM Оля Тележная <olyatelezhnaya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It would be nice to have a few more project ideas. > > I am not sure I have additional ideas for 3-month project for the intern, but > > > https://git.github.io/SoC-2019-Ideas/ currently lists only 2 possible > > projects: > > > > - Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats (which is new) > > I am ready to act as a mentor in this task, I know that part of > project good enough. Great! I thought that it would be a good project for you to mentor and that's why I added it. By the way if you would prefer not to mentor the other project I can remove you from its possible mentor list. > I have additional related task: We have a function called > oid_object_info, it allows to download meta-info of the file. It was > used in cat-file, and inspired by that example, I improved ref-filter, > so now ref-filter works faster with it. Moreover, I have found that > oid_object_info allows to get the contents of the file. It was useful > in ref-filter, and actually it could be also useful in cat-file, but > we still download the file differently in cat-file, and it looks > awkward. I need to make just one last move to finish my patch: it will > close the task about migrating cat-file formatting logic to > ref-filter. But cat-file still will not use general way to download > the file. So, the task is to get rid of additional file-reading logic. > I guess this task is much smaller than original one, but at least the > student will have chance to finish it in 3 months. > My patch is here: https://github.com/git/git/pull/568 > But I hope you will also see it this week in the mailing list. > Proposed task is in TODO in the end of ref-filter file. Do you mean the following comment from https://github.com/git/git/blob/c17ed82b8983ea7e172181d869966db546c6a528/ref-filter.c#L2393-L2399: /* * TODO: add support of %(*raw). Need to switch between oi and oi_deref for that. * TODO: split logic and printing (as it is done in format_ref_array_item and * show_ref_array_item). After that we could use %(raw) in all ref-filter commands. * TODO: rewrite print_object_or_die so that it will reuse result of general * oid_object_info_extended call. */ ? It doesn't look like that's it. Could you just copy the task into an email? Or if you think it could be an idea for a GSoC project, could you send a pull request to add it to: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/SoC-2019-Ideas.md ? > By the way, we had a letter from Google, it is said that our tasks are > sparsed. I am not sure I understand it correctly. Should I help the > project somehow to solve our issues? Yeah, we got en email from Stephanie Taylor saying that our idea list is quite sparse this year with a link to: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list which contains: "Even if you are a new organization and only want one or two students showing that you have multiple ideas (a bare minimum of 4 solid ideas) is vital." They also want "more detailed description of [each] project (2-5 sentences)", so I think we should work on that too. So yeah, any help to fix the idea list is very welcome! Thanks, Christian.
