Hi Emily, On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 12:23 AM Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 7:48 AM Christian Couder > <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, especially Shuqi and Kousik, > > > > September 29 is the deadline for proposing Outreachy projects. As we > > have at least one mentor for now (me), we should propose at least one > > project though. > > > > All ideas for projects are welcome, don't hesitate to suggest one! > > It is probably premature for this cycle. But once we have unit testing > framework[1] in, I expect that moving tests from t/helper/test-foo.c + > a sh test to invoke test-foo over to using the unit testing framework > could be a tidy project for GSOC/Outreachy. Especially if we can have > an example migration to refer to, which Siddharth from Google is > working on in his 20% time just now :) > > 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover.1692297001.git.steadmon@xxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks for the great idea! I am going to propose this as the coding part of Outreachy should start only in December and I think there are good chances that the unit test framework will be merged by then. In case everything is not ready when Outreachy starts, I think we will probably find other unit tests or libification related work that the intern can do. For example, I recently thought about converting commands that store config info in global variables and use old config functions like git_config_(int|bool|string|...) to instead use the git_config_get_*() functions and no more global variables. I wanted to ask about it today, but I think your suggestion would be better. Thanks, Christian.
