Re: Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas

[Eric Gallager <egall@gwmail.gwu.edu>]

On 1/17/18, Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> following a discussion at IRC about an upcoming deadline to register GCC
> as an independent organization for Google Summer of Code 2018 (GSoC), I
> have volunteered to serve as the org-admin for GCC if:
>
>   - there is not another volunteer (so step up if you are!),
>
>   - the community does not object (so let me and/or the steering
>     committee know if you think I am not the right person!), and
>
>   - we have at least 4 good project ideas together(!) with willing
>     mentors by next Monday January 22 (the deadline is on Tuesday).  I
>     will be very happy if we have more.
>
> There are project ideas on our GSoC wiki page
> (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode) but those are not associated
> with a willing mentor and it is basically an idea dump, it is often not
> clear how up to date the proposals are and often they are just a bit too
> terse.
>
> Therefore I would like to ask all seasoned GCC contributors who would
> like to mentor a GSoC student to send a reply to this thread with their
> idea for a project.  If you have an idea but you do not want to be a
> mentor then I will consider it only if it is really interesting, really
> specific (e.g. improving -O2 -g *somehow* is not specific) and I would
> have to be reasonably confident I'd find a good mentor for it.  So far I
> have the following ideas from the IRC discussion:
>
> 1) Jakub is willing to mentor (with someone from GDB but I reckon that
>    we will find someone) a project implementing OMPD.
>
> 2) Martin Liška is willing to mentor either:
>    2a) -fsanitize=type (He provided URL https://reviews.llvm.org/D32197
>        but it gives me a 404 error) or its prototype, or
>    2b) bash code completion like:
>
> http://blog.llvm.org/2017/09/clang-bash-better-auto-completion-is.html
>        but frankly I am afraid it is too small to be a GSoC project, or
>    2c) textual representation of LTO stream a.k.a. lto-dump tool
>
> 3?) Joseph Myers brought up idea to do "built-in functions for TS 18661
>     floating-point functions - which has the feature that there are a
>     lot of similar built-in functions for C99/C11 functions to serve as
>     a guide for how to implement things)" ...Joseph, would you be
>     willing to mentor it?
>
> Please send me your idea for a project you'd like to mentor.  Also feel
> free to comment on other proposals including those above.  I intend to
> put successful project ideas from this thread into a prominent position
> on the wiki page.  Remember, I want at least four plausible ones with
> willing mentors until Monday, January 22nd 23:59 CET.
>
> All sorts of information are available from the GSoC web page at
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/, for example guides for mentors are
> at
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/guide#mentor_manual
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>

Would it make sense to recycle old GSoC projects that never got
completed? I'm wondering about the "replace libiberty with gnulib" one