Re: GSoC

[Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>]

On Sat, Mar 23 2024, koushiki khobare via Gcc wrote:
> Respected sir,
>
> I am Koushiki Khobare from India and currently a first year
> student(Computer Science Student) studying in Pune Institute of
> Computer Technology, Pune, Maharashtra. Recently I heard about GSoC
> and got very excited to explore it. I will be very much thankful to
> you if you provide me some guidance and help me to explore more. I
> have learnt C programming language. So I visited your projects and
> they were all amazing and quite interesting to work upon.

We are delighted you found contributing to GCC interesting.  

Please note that apart from C (and C++!) coding skills, most projects
require some rudimentary theoretical background in compilers.

> One of them
> I am thinking to explore is “Rust Front End”.So I will be grateful to
> work with all my mentors- Mr.Pierre-Emmaunel Patry, Mr. Philip Herron,
> Mr.Arthur Cohen, all being excellent in their works.

Please note that Rust-GCC projects are a bit special in the sense that
they are often discussed primarily on Zulip of the gcc-rust team:

https://gcc-rust.zulipchat.com/

So you may want to reach out to them there as well.

> I will be so much
> of grateful if I get to know what actual skills do you expect from me
> apart from mentioned on website and guide me with what all do I need
> to do in my proposal.

The skills mentioned on the website
(i.e. https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode ) should be quite
sufficient.  I can only advise that you look at the "Before you apply"
section and take (most of) the steps described there.

> I request you to provide me some guidance with my proposal.

You need to select a particular project and make at least a few first
steps (again, at look at those described at
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#Before_you_apply ) yourself.  Then
we can help you to polish things up.

Good luck!

Martin Jambor