Hi Ian, > Student applications will be accepted from March 23 to April 3. Each > student will work with a mentor from the project. As we've done in past > years, we need to have a set of mentors who are prepared to work with > students. I would like to encourage any interested experienced GCC > developer to become a mentor for the project. Being a mentor does not > require that you actually work with a student: we normally have many > more available mentors than we do students. All mentor volunteers (and > only mentor volunteers) will be able to see and vote on all student > project proposals. As in the past, I will accept as a mentor anybody > who is listed as a maintainer of some part of gcc in the MAINTAINERS > file. If you are not a maintainer but still want to be a mentor, I'm > open to being convinced.
I would very much like to mentor a student during Summer of Code even if I am not yet a gcc MAINTAINER. As I am active part of GRAPHITE development since over two years - last year during the Summer of Code 2008 and this year 3 month from AMD Austin even full time - I am sure I am experienced enough to guide a student working on graphite development. I already posted two project proposal I am interested in to the GCC Summer of Code ideas wiki [1]. Both are about automatic parallelization in GCC, which is a research area I already worked on during my time in the LooPo project [2], even before I started to get active in gcc. As I will keep working on graphite and LooPo this summer, I will be up to date in graphite and automatic parallelization and in touch with people who will support me. I think I can help new students based on my experience as a student last year and for myself it will be a great experience to support a new student to get started in gcc development. [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite/SoC (More detailed description) [2] http://www.infosun.fim.uni-passau.de/cl/loopo/ See you Tobi
