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

[Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>]

Hi Sebastian,

On Tue, Apr 03 2018, Sebastian Peryt wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Frankly speaking I believe that students who discussed topics on mailing list might 
> eventually just decide that they were too challenging for them and also competition 
> appeared too difficult. As far as I remember student can only pick few organizations and 
> maybe they just decided to pick some other projects where they expected higher chance 
> of success. After all, as you wrote, it is students work to come up with good projects.
>
> Nevertheless, I'd suggest keeping discussions regarding GSoC projects, that took place in 
> mailing list in wiki (as a summary or direct links) for future reference if someone would 
> like to better understand how some elements work in GCC or would like to continue those works. 
> Without any external link I'm afraid it might get lost in the mailing list soon.

I have pointers to the most important threads in my notes.  I will
put them onto the wiki when I'll reorganize it after this GSoC year or
before the next one starts.  Hopefully by that time we will have two
successful projects.

>
> From my personal point of view I think you did a great work with handling all communication 
> regarding GSoC participation and I believe you are a perfect candidate for admin role next year.

Thanks a lot,

Martin