Re: [Outreachy] Git remote whitelist/blacklist

[Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>]

Hi Elena,

sorry for the late reply. I think it is great that you are interested in the Git remote whitelist/blacklist idea. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with Outreachy and I wonder what kind of feedback you are looking for.

Thanks,
Lars


> On 26 Mar 2016, at 13:15, elena petrashen <elena.petrashen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I think I will submit the application as it is now, but still
> it would be great to get feedback on it, as I don't think
> there was no reply because everything was perfect :(
> 
> Thank you! And have an awesome weekend.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:50 PM, elena petrashen
> <elena.petrashen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm thinking of applying to Outreachy program this round with Git
>> and the project I'm really interested in is "Git remote whitelist/blacklist"
>> project (http://git.github.io/SoC-2016-Ideas/).
>> I have drafted the description/timeline for this project
>> and it would be great to get feedback/suggestions.
>> (I'm actually a bit confused about the scale of this. The
>> Outreachy application doesn't ask for "proposal" in the way
>> GSoC seems to, but merely requests "details and the timeline",
>> so I'm not sure whether the shorter description of what's planned
>> is expected or should I go deeper in detail. I apologize if I
>> chose a wrong approach.)
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>>>> What project(s) are you interested in (these can be in the
>> same or different organizations)?
>> My preferred project to work on is Git remote whitelist/blacklist
>> project listed on http://git.github.io/SoC-2016-Ideas/. I'm really
>> interested in doing this project as I think this kind of effort is
>> really important: I recently started using git myself, and sometimes
>> I was really scared to push something to the location I was not
>> supposed to push to. I would really appreciate the opportunity in
>> participating in making git a bit more newbie-friendly.
>> 
>>>> Who is a possible mentor for the project you are most interested in?
>> Lars Schneider
>> 
>>>> Please describe the details and the timeline of the work you
>> plan to accomplish on the project you are most interested in (discuss
>> these first with the mentor of the project):
>> The goal is to provide a safer environment for newcomers to Git to
>> enabling the possibility to modify git config, adding there "allowed"
>> and "denied" remotes for pushing. Code, tests, and documentation
>> are to be created.
>> 
>> Timeline:
>> 0. Analysis
>>  Apr 22 - May 22 - studying the current code and drafting the
>> implementation proposal
>> 1. Design
>> a. May 22-June 1 - discussion with the mentor regarding the task,
>> presenting the approach and amending it per mentor's feedback
>> b. June 1st-June 15th - communicating with the community
>> regarding the suggested changes and agreeing on logic, scope
>> and format of changes.
>> 2. Development
>> c. June 15th-July 1st - submitting code for the first basic version,
>> amending it according to the feedback
>> d. July 1st - July 15th - extending the code to cover all of the
>> agreed scope
>> e. July 15th - Aug 1st - finalizing full coverage with tests and
>> documentation
>> 3. Evaluation
>> f. Aug 1st - Aug 23rd - adding nice-to-have features and other
>> suggestion by the community
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