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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, 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 <mindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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David Udelson '18
Computer Science

Cornell University College of Engineering
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Re: [MirageOS-devel] GSoC '17 - Interested in Contributing to Irmin