[Outreachy] Introduce myself

[Outreachy] Introduce myself

[Ananya Krishna Maram]

Hi Git Community, Christian and Johannes,

My initial Outreachy got accepted. My name is Ananya Krishna(her), I
am from south India. I completed my under-graduation. Due to some
problems, I decided to stay back at home. And currently I would like
to dedicate myself to learn from open communities.

During the school, I showed keen interest in operating systems and
implemented most of the scheduling, synchronization and some sample
examples in memory management. I also did a lot of assignments in bash
scripting. In my 3rd year of Btech, I was introduced to this magical
tool `git` and got flattened by how it made me to keep track of
versions of my assignments. Having done a lot of assignment in C and
bash scripting and keen interest to learn about working of git
internals, I choose to contribute to this project. So I started
observing the patches sent to git mailing list.

I am currently looking for first patch opportunities to git. I came
across[1] and I will try to put maximum effort towards my goal and if
I need some clarification of the problem statement I guess you guys or
Outreachy mentors will be here to help me.

Thanks,
Ananya.


 [1](https://git.github.io/SoC-2018-Microprojects/)

Re: [Outreachy] Introduce myself

[Christian Couder]

Hi Ananya,

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 5:53 PM Ananya Krishna Maram
<ananyakittu1997@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Git Community, Christian and Johannes,
>
> My initial Outreachy got accepted.

Great! Welcome to the Git community!

[...]

> Having done a lot of assignment in C and
> bash scripting and keen interest to learn about working of git
> internals, I choose to contribute to this project. So I started
> observing the patches sent to git mailing list.

About possible projects I updated https://git.github.io/Outreachy-17/
but only the `git bisect` has been officially proposed as an Outreachy
project. I hope Dscho (Johannes) will be ok to submit one of the 2
others soon and to register himself as a mentor or co-mentor on some
of the projects.

> I am currently looking for first patch opportunities to git. I came
> across[1] and I will try to put maximum effort towards my goal and if
> I need some clarification of the problem statement I guess you guys or
> Outreachy mentors will be here to help me.

The micro-project page you found is not up-to-date, so some
micro-projects we propose might have already been taken by GSoC
students last winter/spring. Sorry we didn't update the page or create
another one. Anyway there are some micro-projects there like "Add more
builtin patterns for userdiff" that are still valid and still good
small tasks to get started working on Git. And there are explanations
about how you can search for micro-projects (especially how to search
for #leftoverbits on the mailing list archive).

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Git,
Christian.