#Introduce Yourselves - In this Thread!

[mery-top]

Say Hi, Along with a tag about yourselves!

- Create a new Comment and Express you!

[mery-top]

Hi, This is Meerthika - A dopamine Coder.

[insaneonai]

Hello everyone I am jeydev... Idk nothing special here just a student....

[mery-top]

Nice to have you here jey!

[varadan13]

Hi My name is Aneesh. I am a developer from Bangalore also believe in learning under the hood concepts. I have explored some libraries like immer, alphinejs. See here my blogpost on my understanding of alphinejs: https://github.com/varadan13/z-state

I would like to contribute or help out regarding any new projects. I'd like to stay in java land and in javascript land. Dont want to spend my time on abstraction layers build with C. Because I know nothing about C.

Always open to learn new things.

Current exploring the waku library, which is a react server component library

[insaneonai]

Great to have you here....

[csm-18]

Hello! My name is Subrahmanyam - Scientist (not yet but want to be!)
I am a bca student. I like compilers and cli tools.

[mery-top]

Great to have you here🥳

[Mafty-Jordan]

Hello this is Jordan and I am excited to be here, I hope to learn all that I can whilst improving as well, please don't hesitate to give me guidance as I am a hungry learner and I want to contribute big and small to this field. Thank you. 🙂

[mery-top]

Amazing Jordan, Glad to have you here!

[KrishnaChaitanya16]

Hello Maintainers
I’m Krishna Chaitanya. I’ve been going through the existing RootSprout projects and really like the focus on implementing core systems from scratch. I’m planning to work on a new project in a similar spirit and wanted to start the discussion here.

[mery-top]

Happy to have you here Krishna!

[KrishnaChaitanya16]

Thanks a lot!

Before I move ahead, I wanted to check one thing — would a minimal MVP of a Log-Structured Merge (LSM) Tree–based storage engine (WAL, memtable, SSTables, and basic compaction) be a reasonable and sufficient scope for a Winter of Code 5.0 IIIT Kalyani project under RootSprout?

I want to make sure the scope is realistic and aligned before starting.

[mery-top]

Yes, That would be awesome! You can create it as a separate repo.

[KrishnaChaitanya16]

I’ve been developing
the LSM-tree storage engine in its own repo under my GitHub account.

What would be the preferred way to upstream it into RootSprout once you’re happy
with the progress?
• Should I transfer the repository to the RootSprout org, or
• Would you prefer creating a new repo under RootSprout and I push the code there?

[mery-top]

You can transfer the repo to RootSprout.
Once completion👍

[16ratneshkumar]

[mery-top]

Great to have you here!

[16ratneshkumar]

I have a doubt. Under Winter of Code 5, do we only need to contribute code to an existing repository, or can we develop a new project under the guidance of a mentor?

[mery-top]

You can either contribute to the repos at rootsprout or work on a new project and transfer it to rootsprout, but please let us know the type of the project you will be working on!

[16ratneshkumar]

A CLI based search engine.

[mery-top]

That will be amazing✨, but everything should be from first principles and made from scratch, general libraries are fine but don't use too much abstraction 😇.

After you fully completed it.

Make sure it has:

1. Architecture diagrams.
2. Issues for people for further contribution
3. Clear documentation
4. Running steps
5. Must include GitHub actions file.
6. Optional video

You can send us the link of the project, we will review it and let you know about the transfer details.

[Padmashree06]

Hello mentors,
I am Padmashree, a second year undergrad student. I enjoy understanding systems at low-level with very less abstraction. I found this organization through WOC 5.
I’m interested in working on the Exsh project to deepen my understanding of Operating Systems. However, I’m a bit unclear about how to proceed, especially with respect to the WoC proposal. Since the project description and roadmap are not clearly mentioned and there are very few issues available on GitHub, I’m unsure what scope or problem statements I should focus on in my proposal.

Could you please guide me on:

• what kind of work is expected for Exsh during WoC,
• possible areas/features that need improvement, and
• how I should frame my WoC proposal given the current state of the project?

Any guidance would be really helpful. Thank you for your time!

[mery-top]

Currently we don't have any issues related to Exsh shell.

You can create a new feature for the shell by submitting a new issue and working on it.

You can do the following things for new issue,

1. Find a new feature for the shell
2. Extend the functionality of the shell
3. Or just create an issue where you find difficulties in implementing or want to implement so that others can work on it.

For the best, create atleast 5 issues including the ones you will implement and by others.

[Padmashree06]

Okay thanks for clarifying, will look into it.

[adityaanand-tech]

Hello Mentors,
I’m Aditya Anand, a second-year student with a strong interest in systems programming, AI, cybersecurity, and building real-world software. I enjoy working close to the system layer—exploring C, Linux internals, shells, and secure infrastructure—and learning how things work under the hood. I’m focused on improving my problem-solving skills and building scalable, production-grade projects.

I’d love to contribute to your projects as they really helped me understand systems from a low-level perspective. I discovered your organization through WoC 5.0, and working through the code has been a great learning experience. I’m excited to learn more and contribute meaningfully.

[Arka-ops07]

Hi guys, myself Arka, BE 1st year. I am madly interested in learning AI n neural networking. I am quite well in python,c,c++ also know frontend well. the software n hardware linking area is what excites me. I'm eager to contribute in WOC 5.0..