Hi David,
It's great to hear that you're interested! I'm Mindy, one of the
maintainers of the Mirage project and the co-administrator (with Lars
Kurth of the Xen project) for this upcoming round of GSoC and Outreachy.
I think the two tickets you mention look like great places to start
contributing.
Thomas Gazagnaire just updated the ticket in Irmin about GC here:
https://github.com/mirage/irmin/issues/71 . It looks large for a GSoC
project to me, and difficult to make concrete intermediate progress on,
but there are other TODOs in Irmin that might be better fits if you're
interested. For example, the recent 1.0.0 release of Irmin removed the
previous HTTP frontend, but there are users who are interested in an
HTTP REST API (see https://github.com/mirage/irmin/issues/415 ) -- we've
recently gotten better tooling around the web in our corner of OCaml
(see https://github.com/inhabitedtype/ocaml-webmachine ), so this would
be a great opportunity to contribute not just to Mirage and Irmin but
potentially to those projects as well.
Thanks,
Mindy
On 03/06/2017 07:37 AM, David Udelson wrote:
Hi Everyone,
My name is David and I am a prospective GSoC student. I have recently
acquired a basic working knowledge of OCaml through my undergraduate
functional programming course, and I'm excited to hopefully combine by
enthusiasm for open-source with my newfound zeal for functional
programming by contributing to Mirage OS through GSoC this summer.
From looking at the "help needed" projects on Canopy, I am especially
interested in implementing a GC for Irmin. While I work on
understanding what exactly this entails, I was wondering what would be
appropriate for a small starting contribution to the project. It seems
to me like one (or both) of the following tickets is low-hanging fruit:
https://github.com/mirage/irmin/issues/408
https://github.com/mirage/irmin/issues/280
But please let me know if another ticket is better suited to starting
out, or if my starting contribution could be better used on a
different aspect of the MIrage OS project.
Thanks,
David
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David Udelson '18
Computer Science
Cornell University College of Engineering
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