Re: Unify ref-filter formats with other pretty formats: GSoC'22

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

Hi Tapasweni,

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:40 PM Tapasweni Pathak
<tapaswenipathak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Taylor, Hi Junio,
>
> I have added the mailing list (++git@vger.kernel.org) in this email,
> hope now it lands better in your mailbox.
>
> I would be happy to take these tasks, not that I require any
> mentorship but to work with folks who are involved.

I am sure that there will be folks who are involved who will work with
you if you select one of the projects we suggested. We don't suggest
projects we are not interested in. The old timers who suggest them and
are willing to mentor usually do get involved in them.

> I have had times
> where my work has not been seen for quarters and then closed after
> reviews cycles, never let it re-happen.

We cannot guarantee that your work will be merged, as some better
solution might be found, or someone else will decide to do it in
another way and it might turn out to be better. But otherwise you can
be pretty sure that your work will get reviewed. It might take some
time and we might ask for a lot of changes in the reviews though.

> It is a nice and respectful way to say, already deeply involved folks
> as mentors, for someone who is entering the org or community. Not that
> I require any tech or engineering help or otherwise, I mostly work
> independently, just don't want to go my work stale and be clear on
> what exactly is required (before or after a discussion, rather w/ or
> w/o any discussions)

I think we are open to answering specific questions about what is
required for the work we suggest. We might sometimes be wrong though
and realize it later, so the requirements (or sometimes the whole
solution we suggest) could change along the way. That's how software
development works. And even in this case the fact that we realize that
our requirements were wrong is an achievement.