On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 6:31 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 07-09-2020 00:26, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:> > >> I would appreciate help to find project ideas though. Are there still > >> scripts that are worth converting to C (excluding git-bisect.sh and > >> git-submodule.sh that are still worked on)? > > > > I think Dscho's e-mail linked below gives a nice overview of the various > > scripts and their likely status as of Jan2020: > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001301154170.46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > I'm guessing only the status of submodule has changed as it's being > > worked on now. > > After giving it a second thought, I believe I should take back my word > about the git-submodule status changing. There still seems to be some > work left for it. Yeah, there is some work left, but Shourya said he was interested in continuing to work on it. > To be clear, > > - there's 'add', whose conversion is currently stalled [1] Yeah, but it hasn't been stalled for a long time, and sometimes it takes time after the GSoC or Outreachy period for former GSoC students or Outreachy interns to resume their work. > - there's 'update', which still has a decent amount of code [2] > in the shell script. > - we still have to complete the conversion completely converting > moving the rest of the bits from `git-submodule.sh` to C which is > mostly just the option parsing. This might be more trickier than > it sounds as we would've to ensure the we don't accidentally > change behaviour of the options when moving the option parsing to C. > > There's also an e-mail from Junio which is relevant [3] > > I'm not sure if this would be enough for a complete project on it's own. > I'm also not sure whether 'add' would get converted in the meantime. In > any case, I believe we could add a few other small refactoring projects > to make up for the rest of the period. For instance, > > - Replace more instances of `the_index` and `the_repository` > (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/379) > > - Turn the `fetch_if_missing` global into a field of `struct repository` > (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/251) > > - Possibly others from #leftoverbits > > Thoughts? Yeah, without 'add' we would have enough related issues for another project. I would prefer though that we wait for at least 3 months without any progress before suggesting them as a project. That's what we usually do and I think it's the right thing to do.
