On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:27:13PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam 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'll have a the beginning of next week and will think about topics meanwhile. > > 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). > > Reg. the timline [1] Jun 17th won't be much of the start. The community > bonding period starts May 1. Many contributors typically start dipping their > toes into their project right away. So, you would have ample time before the > start of the vacation to set the contributor up and going with the project. > > [1]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline Yeah, as long as there is a co-mentor that can take over during my absence I'm happy to do it. Karthik said that he'd be willing to cover me, which I think would be a good fit given that he's already got quite a bit of exposure to the reftable backend internally at GitLab. Thanks! Patrick
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