Hi Kaartic, Patrick, Karthik and all, On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 12:41 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/02/24 15:08, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:27:13PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > >> > >> 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/ Thanks for creating the page! I have just applied the patch Patrick sent to the mailing list with the ideas related to reftable. > >> 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. > > > > Thanks, Patrick! It would be great if you could share the same as soon > as possible. The deadline for applying to GSoC is Feb 6 (18:00 UTC) and > we need the ideas page to be decent enough before we go ahead with > applying for this year. > > If the elaborate project description could take time, feel free to share > a paragraph or two that are supplemented with a few references. That > should be sufficient for applying to GSoC. Yeah, we need a decent idea page, but it doesn't need to be finalized. I think we can still make changes after the deadline (which is for the Open Source Orgs to apply). > Christian, > > It would be great if you could look into and improve the detail for the > unit test migration idea. I just added a very terse description based on > what I could get my hands on. If you think the description we used for > the Outreachy round would do, kindly update the page with the same or > kindly share it here so that I could update the same in the ideas page :-) The project description for Outreachy was not very elaborate and is now quite outdated. I have instead improved the project description in the Ideas page. > > 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! > > Sounds good. Thank you for volunteering to co-mentor, Karthik! Yeah, thank you Patrick and Karthik!
