Week 13: Signing Off With Gratitude and Growth

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 Hi everyone,

This is my final blog in the weekly series documenting my GSoC journey with SBSCL. Over the past 12 weeks, these posts have been a way for me to not only track progress but also share insights, challenges, and milestones as they happened in real time.

This Week’s Highlights

  • My last PR was merged, marking the completion of the main development work.

  • We’re now discussing the next big step — merging the feature branch I’ve been working on throughout the summer into the main branch of SBSCL. This feels like the perfect culmination of the project: to see the work become part of the official codebase and ready for broader use.

  • With this, everything is set for the final submission and the close of this GSoC cycle.

Looking Back

When I started, the idea of implementing and refining numerical solvers within SBSCL felt both exciting and daunting. Over time, I’ve grown not just in terms of coding and technical depth, but also in how I collaborate, document, and think about long-term software sustainability.

These blogs have been an unexpected but valuable part of the journey. Writing each week gave me the chance to pause, reflect, and document my work into a narrative that others could follow. And the best part? Many of you have been there with me, reading and encouraging me along the way.

Looking Ahead

Although this marks the end of the weekly blog series, it’s far from the end of the journey. We’re already in talks about the next release of SBSCL and even a potential research paper that could grow out of this work. I see this not as a closing chapter, but as the beginning of deeper contributions to open-source scientific computing.

A Note of Gratitude 

Thank you to everyone who followed along week after week. It really means a lot that you gave your time to read these updates. And of course, immense gratitude to my organization, mentors and collaborators for their guidance, patience, and encouragement throughout this journey.

Lots of love to everybody involved, you made this experience truly memorable.

And that’s a wrap, thank you for being part of my GSoC 2025 journey.

Signing Off
Ayush Baranwal

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