Re: GSoC 2023

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

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 6:41 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/01/23 15:04, Christian Couder wrote:
> >
> > GSoC Org Applications open next week on Monday, January 23rd at 1800
> > UTC and close on Tuesday, February 7th at 1800 UTC.
> >
> > I am interested in mentoring and being an org admin for Git again this
> > year, so I plan to apply for Git soon.
>
> I would be glad to help as an Org admin this year. I don't suppose I
> have the capacity to mentor / co-mentor this year, though. I could very
> well help as much as I can passively where needed.

You are welcome to be an Org Admin, thanks!

Actually you were already an Org Admin last year and it looks like
they didn't remove people from the roles they had last year, so you
are still an Org Admin.

> One thing to note about the Org application. As per Google's claim we
> should be able to complete this year's application quickly since the new
> webapp allows us to reuse last year's application details.

Yeah, I just did it and reusing last year's application details was
quite quick. One needs to read, agree on and accept 3 long documents,
and they still ask a few questions about last year's GSoC though.

They also want an URL with an idea list, so I quickly copied and
edited last year's idea list into this one:

https://git.github.io/SoC-2023-Ideas/

I removed the "Reachability bitmap improvements" idea but left the 2 others:

  - More Sparse Index Integrations (I removed `git mv` in the list of
commands that need to be improved though)
  - Unify ref-filter formats with other pretty formats

On both of them I removed all possible mentors except me though. They
are welcome to tell me that they should be added back.

> We certainly are in need of ideas and mentors for this year. Do chime in
> with your thoughts. :-)

Yeah, sure.