Hi Kaartic, Patrick, Karthik and all,

On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 12:41 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 01/02/24 15:08, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:27:13PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

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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.

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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now quite outdated.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.

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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!