On 21-09-2020 09:52, Christian Couder wrote: > 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'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. > Yeah, he's most welcome to resume his work :) >> 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. > Ok. Got it. >> - 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. > Ok. That makes sense. I also missed the fact that Shourya had also expressed interested in converting the 'update' part of submodule in his final GSoC report [A]. So, I agree that it's too early to propose the rest of the submodule work for Outreachy. Thanks. References === [A]: https://shouryashukla.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-final-report.html -- Sivaraam
