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 [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:08:53AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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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.

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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.

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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