Re: Developing- Where to Start
Breanna Devore-McDonaldwrites: > Hello all, Hello, > I'm a third year Computer Science student at the University of Notre > Dame, and for the final project of my Data Structures class, my group > and I have to find a way to contribute our (hopefully) newly-found > data structures and optimization knowledge to a well-known open source > project. We thought Git would be a great project to work on, but we > have no idea where to start. I am a teacher and I offer my students a similar project. I maintain a list of small projects as source of inspiration for students: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas Some advices before you get started: * Start with a very, very small contribution, as soon as possible. The list of microprojects from GSoC is a good place to start, and the easiest projects in the page above can be of interest too. This way, you will: - Understand how submitting contributions work (if you haven't done so, read https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches ) - Get an idea of how productive you are when working with the Git codebase. * Even for the actual project, don't try something hard. The difficulty here is not to write the first draft, but to get it properly tested, reviewed, to respond to reviewers, and finally get the code accepted into git.git. Unlike traditional school projects, you can't anticipate difficulties (no teacher wrote the correct version for you in advance...), and the quality standard is much higher than what you're probably used to. A rough heuristics: estimate how long you are going to take for your project, multiply by 2 or 3, and you're still getting an underestimation. As a comparison, for Google summer of code, a very good student works full-time for 2 months and writes about 2000 to 3000 lines of code. BTW, how long is your project? How many students in your group? * Interact with the mailing-list as much as you can and as early as you can. What you want to avoid is to write a large amount of code and get it reviewed at the end of your project. That would almost certainly result in requests for changes that you wouldn't have time to apply. OK, that may all be a bit discourraging ;-). But it shouldn't: it's _really_ very interesting to contribute to a project like Git. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Developing- Where to Start
Hello all, I'm a third year Computer Science student at the University of Notre Dame, and for the final project of my Data Structures class, my group and I have to find a way to contribute our (hopefully) newly-found data structures and optimization knowledge to a well-known open source project. We thought Git would be a great project to work on, but we have no idea where to start. Can anyone offer ideas or parts of the code that we could possibly help with? (a problem that is data structures-related would be extremely helpful!) Many thanks, Breanna Devore-McDonald -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Developing- Where to Start
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Christian Couderwrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Breanna Devore-McDonald > wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm a third year Computer Science student at the University of Notre >> Dame, and for the final project of my Data Structures class, my group >> and I have to find a way to contribute our (hopefully) newly-found >> data structures and optimization knowledge to a well-known open source >> project. We thought Git would be a great project to work on, but we >> have no idea where to start. Can anyone offer ideas or parts of the >> code that we could possibly help with? (a problem that is data >> structures-related would be extremely helpful!) One problem focused around data structures may be rewriting the git bisect internal algorithm. Currently git bisect uses an O(n^2), but there are better algorithms available such as [1] [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hzF8fZbsQtKwUPH60dsEwVZM2wmESFq713SeAsg_hkc/edit?usp=sharing The algorithm presented in that doc came up in a discussion between some Git developers, I just wrote it down. Maybe it's understandable. That said, usually the tests in git bisect take the most time, so it is an internal optimization related to data structures, whose impact is estimated to matter only a bit. Also I would estimate the project to rewrite git bisect to be quite a lot of effort. > > The Git project often participate in the Google Summer of Code. > > This year we used the following resources to help potential GSoC > students get involved in developing Git and find a project to work on: > > http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Microprojects.html > http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Ideas.html Yeah the microprojects are awesome to get into Git development! Also look at http://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/leftover-bits.html for smaller projects. > > A GSoC wrap up has been written recently in Git Rev News edition 7: > > http://git.github.io/rev_news/2015/09/09/edition-7/ > > Earlier this year students from Ensimag (Grenoble, France) also > contributed to Git and a small wrap up is available in Git Rev News > edition 5: > > http://git.github.io/rev_news/2015/07/08/edition-5/ > > I hope this will help you get started in your Git development journey. > > Best, > Christian. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Developing- Where to Start
Hi, On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Breanna Devore-McDonaldwrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a third year Computer Science student at the University of Notre > Dame, and for the final project of my Data Structures class, my group > and I have to find a way to contribute our (hopefully) newly-found > data structures and optimization knowledge to a well-known open source > project. We thought Git would be a great project to work on, but we > have no idea where to start. Can anyone offer ideas or parts of the > code that we could possibly help with? (a problem that is data > structures-related would be extremely helpful!) The Git project often participate in the Google Summer of Code. This year we used the following resources to help potential GSoC students get involved in developing Git and find a project to work on: http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Microprojects.html http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Ideas.html A GSoC wrap up has been written recently in Git Rev News edition 7: http://git.github.io/rev_news/2015/09/09/edition-7/ Earlier this year students from Ensimag (Grenoble, France) also contributed to Git and a small wrap up is available in Git Rev News edition 5: http://git.github.io/rev_news/2015/07/08/edition-5/ I hope this will help you get started in your Git development journey. Best, Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html