Hi Victoria, On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 7:18 PM Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Christian Couder wrote: > > About the "More Sparse Index Integrations" Shuqi worked on, mentored > > by Victoria, I am likely not the best person to mentor it, but I think > > I could manage. It would be nice though if I got an idea about what > > should be done next and how much work is left in general in this area. > > (Shuqi's GSoC final report at > > https://cheskaqiqi.github.io/2023/08/22/Final/ doesn't talk much about > > this.) Perhaps even if Shuqi is continuing to work on the project, > > there is still work that could be done in parallel on other commands > > than the ones he is working on. > > To be honest, I'd recommend against using "More Sparse Index Integrations" > as a project again - I was actually going to suggest "retiring" the project > after this past GSoC term. The remaining commands are all fairly complex, to > the point that they'd be challenging even for someone that's done a lot of > sparse index work. Ok, I will not propose that project then. > All that said, if someone is *really* interested in this project, you might > be able to get it to work. You'll probably want to limit the scope to one > command and make sure there's a strong emphasis placed on testing. Sparse > index integrations can introduce a lot of subtle bugs (e.g. the one Shuqi > found in 'diff' [1]), and a buggy command is worse for users than lacking > sparse index compatibility. > > I hope that helps! Sure, thanks for the interesting update on this, Christian.
