On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 09:06:36AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 12:19:26PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > Hi Patrick, Christian, Karthik and Jialuo, > > > > Thank you very much for your interest in volunteering as a mentor! > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I'd be happy to mentor this year again. A couple of ideas: > > > > > > > > Thank you for suggesting these ideas, Patrick! I've incorporated them into > > a draft > > ideas page for now. You can see them here: > > > > https://git.github.io/SoC-2025-Ideas/ > > Great, thanks a lot! > > > Kindly suggest any corrections to the description, project size / > > difficulty as necessary. > > I've mentioned potential mentors based on what I'm aware of so far. > > > > Patrick, Christian and Karthik, kindly mention the ideas that you're > > interested to > > mentor. > > > > While I have not included them as of yet, I wonder if the following ideas > > which we > > had last year[1] could still be retained this year: > > > > - Implement consistency checks for refs. The idea could be about > > implementing further ref checks which Jialuo appears to be helping > > out with. We could leave it if Jialuo prefers to continue working on > > the same in a flow. > > The biggest omission right now is the reftable backend, but that one I > plan to work on myself in this release cycle. > I am happy to see this. If you plan to work on this in this release cycle. I won't touch this. I'll review to learn more knowledge about reftable backend. > I'll leave it to Jialuo to decide whether there's anything else in this > context that would make for a good GSoC project, as he's been the > primary driving force here. > One thing I could think about is to clean up "git-fsck(1)" to make the boundary between the ref checks and object checks clear which means we need to remove unnecessary checks and reorder the program sequence. However, I think this is a little risky for a GSoC project. So, I'd like to implement this later on my own. Thanks, Jialuo
