On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 7:12 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03/02/22 7:42 pm, Philip Oakley wrote: > > My latest thinking is that the repos would be held in-tree under > > /Documentation/RepoBundles and have been exported as bundles by an > > explicit test_export_function. Of key importance in the project is to > > minimise/eliminate any extra maintainer actions, so once a patch with a > > repo export is accepted, the flow through the delivery process to user > > installs is essentially the same as the man pages. > > We could possibly include this one in the idea list but I suppose we might > need a more concrete idea on what needs to be done as part of this project. > That would help very much with guiding the student during the project > period. > > We also need to know if the end result of such a project would be an > acceptable contribution to the project. What it would take for the contribution > to be acceptable? etc. Yeah, I think this is the main issue with this idea. We have a section named "Note about refactoring projects versus projects that implement new features" in https://git.github.io/General-Application-Information/ explaining why projects implementing new things can be a bad idea, and what can be done about it. > Just to make it clear, I'm trying to think through on what we need to do to > make this a GSoC idea proposal. > > > Not sure if that's fleshed out enough, or if it's at the wrong level for > > GSoC, or If I'm right as a Mentor, but I'd be happy to co-mentor. > > That's nice. Thanks for volunteering. Yeah, thanks for volunteering anyway! > On a related note, the organization registrations are now open for this year. > The deadline is February 21 - 18:00 UTC. I'm not sure if anyone else is > planning on applying for Git. In case no one else beats me to it, I plan on > applying for Git around February 15 17:00 UTC. I was thinking about applying for Git, but I am glad that you plan to do it. I will try to add some project ideas to SoC-2022-Ideas.md before February 15. Thanks, Christian.
