Re: Projects for the next Outreachy round

Hi Emily,

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 12:23 AM Emily Shaffer [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 7:48 AM Christian Couder
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi everyone, especially Shuqi and Kousik,

September 29 is the deadline for proposing Outreachy projects. As we
have at least one mentor for now (me), we should propose at least one
project though.

All ideas for projects are welcome, don't hesitate to suggest one!

It is probably premature for this cycle. But once we have unit testing
framework[1] in, I expect that moving tests from t/helper/test-foo.c +
a sh test to invoke test-foo over to using the unit testing framework
could be a tidy project for GSOC/Outreachy. Especially if we can have
an example migration to refer to, which Siddharth from Google is
working on in his 20% time just now :)

1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover.1692297001.git.steadmon@google.com/ (local)

Thanks for the great idea! I am going to propose this as the coding
part of Outreachy should start only in December and I think there are
good chances that the unit test framework will be merged by then. In
case everything is not ready when Outreachy starts, I think we will
probably find other unit tests or libification related work that the
intern can do.

For example, I recently thought about converting commands that store
config info in global variables and use old config functions like
git_config_(int|bool|string|...) to instead use the git_config_get_*()
functions and no more global variables. I wanted to ask about it
today, but I think your suggestion would be better.

Thanks,
Christian.