On 27/01/22 8:09 pm, Derrick Stolee wrote:
On 1/26/2022 1:29 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
If we are interested in participating we need:
- Volunteers who are wiling to act as mentors. I would be
willing to be volunteer myself as a mentor for one student.
- Microprojects: I believe we could repurpose the Outreachy
microproject ideas[2] for GSoC too. If others have suggestions
for microproject ideas, please share them.
- Project ideas: There are two mentioned in SoC-2021-Ideas[3]
but both were picked by GSoC students the previous year. So,
we would need new ones this year.
One project that could be interesting for GSoC (and the timing
should work out) is to complete the sparse index integrations for
some of the less critical commands. Some examples include 'git mv'
and 'git rm', I think.
This of course depends on some ongoing work to integrate more of
the critical commands that we implemented early in microsoft/git,
such as Victoria's current series which is leading to a 'git stash'
integration and a series I have waiting in the wings for a 'git
sparse-checkout' integration.
However, I think we have a decent paved-path for a new contributor
to jump in and get started on the remaining commands. The granularity
means that the project has multiple milestones that can be hit
without an all-in-one series.
Sounds good.
As I mentioned up thread, you could feel free to share the project
description here or open a PR by adding it directly to this document:
https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/SoC-2022-Ideas.md
(note: currently returns a 404; it should work when the
related PR [pr-1] is merged)
Just to be sure, would you be willing to mentor in case a student
picks this project?
[pr-1]: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/540
- Multiple Sizes of Projects: In 2021, project size was reduced
(~175 hours). This year, both medium sized projects (~175 hours)
and large projects (~350 hours) are supported.
GSoC organizers recommend communities to have both medium _and_
large size projects.
I think this project would fit in the "medium" category.
--
Sivaraam
