Hello all! On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:58 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > On 31 January 2024 6:40:36 pm IST, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:08:53AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:38:48AM +0100, Christian Couder wrote: > >> > >> Yes, the tests in t0032-reftable-unittest.sh should be ported over to > >> the new unit test framework eventually, and I think that this might be a > >> good GSoC project indeed. > >> > > Nice. Good to hear that. > > >> If there is interest I'd also be happy to draft up some more topics in > >> the context of refs and the reftable backend. I'm sure there should be > >> some topics here that would be a good fit for the GSoC project, and I'd > >> be happy to mentor any such project in this context. > > > > Great. Thanks for your interest in willing to mentor! > > I created a fairly rough SoC ideas page for now including a barebones > information about the unit test migration idea: > > https://git.github.io/SoC-2024-Ideas/ > > Note well that the existing idea's description is far from complete and > I mostly just cooked it up to serve as a template for how the idea entry > could look like. Kindly contribute towards elaborating the same :-) > > Also, feel free to suggest ideas you have around refs and reftable > backed, Patrick. Those would be helpful. > > >I noticed that the starting period falls right into my honeymoon from > >June 17th until July 19th. This unfortunately makes it quite a lot > >harder for me to mentor projects alone. Still, I'd be happy to co-mentor > >or help out in other ways. > > > > I too don't believe your vacation is going to be a deal breaker for you > being a mentor. It should be totally fine given that we get a backup > mentor who is also willing to mentor the candidate. (side note: I myself > have no knowledge about refs backends. So, I suppose I might not be able > to help co-mentor this one). I should be able to help out here, happy to co-mentor on the reftable topics.
