Re: Proposals for GSoC25

Am Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 09:09:13PM +0100 schrieb Étienne Mollier:
> > I think your job basically consists of two tasks:
> > 
> >   1. Telling the student what to do
> >   2. Help the stundent getting started and in case of trouble
> > 
> > Item one is basically defined by our list of packages without
> > autopkgtest ordered by popcon.  The second is what you usually do
> > on the list - just not for students.
> 
> Thanks for the job description, I gather that the list of
> packages missing autopkgtest you mention would be [1].

Yes, this is the list we want to work down.  (Probably not starting on
top since the first 4-5 are a bit harder, but this are details.)

> As of
> item 2, I think that would be also good for me to refresh myself
> with our documentation, and to witness creative new approaches
> to autopkgtest scripts.

I hereby confirm I also learned quite a bit while mentoring. ;-)

So you would register the project in Wiki?  Thanks also to Emmanu for
volunteering as co-mentor.  Please be assured that I will step in if
needed.

Kind regards and see you at the Sprint
   Andreas.
 
> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/helper-scripts/-/blob/master/debian-med-tests.txt?ref_type=heads