Hi Mindy, Thanks for your reply and the updates regarding the GC ticket. The REST API does indeed look interesting, and I'm currently investigating it further.
Since I forgot to mention it in my previous email, my irc nick is the same as my github username: dudelson. I'll probably be asking a lot of questions about the project through those channels in the near future :) Also, one sort of puzzling thing I've run across so far: What is the best way to search the mailing list archives? I used the search bar on this page <https://www.xenproject.org/help/mailing-list.html>, as well as the "site" search parameter on google, both with limited success. Is there a better way? - David On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Mindy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > David Udelson '18 > Computer Science > Cornell University College of Engineering > > > _______________________________________________ > MirageOS-devel mailing > [email protected]https://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > MirageOS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel > > -- David Udelson '18 Computer Science Cornell University College of Engineering
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