Re: Git in GSoC 2022?

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 1/29/2022 1:19 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> On 27/01/22 8:09 pm, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>> On 1/26/2022 1:29 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
>>> If we are interested in participating we need:
>>>
>>>    - Volunteers who are wiling to act as mentors. I would be
>>>      willing to be volunteer myself as a mentor for one student.
>>>      - Microprojects: I believe we could repurpose the Outreachy
>>>      microproject ideas[2] for GSoC too. If others have suggestions
>>>      for microproject ideas, please share them.
>>>
>>>    - Project ideas: There are two mentioned in SoC-2021-Ideas[3]
>>>      but both were picked by GSoC students the previous year. So,
>>>      we would need new ones this year.
>>
>> One project that could be interesting for GSoC (and the timing
>> should work out) is to complete the sparse index integrations for
>> some of the less critical commands. Some examples include 'git mv'
>> and 'git rm', I think.
>>
>> This of course depends on some ongoing work to integrate more of
>> the critical commands that we implemented early in microsoft/git,
>> such as Victoria's current series which is leading to a 'git stash'
>> integration and a series I have waiting in the wings for a 'git
>> sparse-checkout' integration.
>>
>> However, I think we have a decent paved-path for a new contributor
>> to jump in and get started on the remaining commands. The granularity
>> means that the project has multiple milestones that can be hit
>> without an all-in-one series.
>>
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> As I mentioned up thread, you could feel free to share the project
> description here or open a PR by adding it directly to this document:
> 
>   https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/SoC-2022-Ideas.md
> 
>   (note: currently returns a 404; it should work when the
>    related PR [pr-1] is merged)
> 
> Just to be sure, would you be willing to mentor in case a student
> picks this project?

Victoria Dye and I are willing to co-mentor if a student picks this
project.

I'll make a PR that adds a description to the linked doc soon.
 
Thanks,
-Stolee