Re: [GSoC] Microproject help

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> During today's discussion, we came up another interesting one.
>
>     Follow one of our three tutorial documents to the letter to see
>     if they need adjusting, and come up with a set of patches to
>     adjust them.
>
> This kills a few birds with a stone.
>
>  - The student has to be familiar with the codebase and MyFirst
>    tutorials are meant as a gentle "dip your toes in the water"
>    introduction.  Following the examples and copy-pasting code
>    snippet and trying to build would be useful exercise for GSoC
>    candidates by itself.
>
>  - These tutorials, unfortunately, haven't been maintained as well
>    as they should have been, and some do not compile any longer due
>    to API changes, header shuffling, etc.  Identifying such breakages
>    and reporting them as bugs is already useful by itself, even if
>    the student does not manage to fix them.
>
>  - But if the GSoC student can learn to address such a bug (which
>    requires use of "git log" and "git blame" to spelunk where the
>    breakage happened, after which it would be obvious what the right
>    fix would be), that is valuable exercise by itself, even if it
>    does not reach the "patch submission" stage.
>
>  - And of course, the result of such a work can go through the usual
>    patch review cycle, which would serve as a microproject.
>
> Hmm?

That sounds like a reasonable project, as well.