Tobias and Maxim were the recent coordinators.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherr...@oarcorp.com> wrote: > I may have missed this comment but GCC wouldn't need to apply as it's own > GSoC project. The GNU Project applied as an umbrella organization and was > accepted. Any GCC activities would be under that. I don't know who the > organization administrator is for the GNU Project but the loop needs to be > closed so GCC is included. > > FWIW the RTEMS community had been interested in improvements to coverage > reporting but we don't have the expertise to do it without someone > knowledgeable from GCC. We do have requirements. > > --joel > > > > On March 3, 2016 4:32:00 AM CST, "Manuel López-Ibáñez" > <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On 01/03/16 19:38, Ayush Goel wrote: >>> Hey, >> >>Hi, >> >>Things related to development of GCC are best discussed in gcc@ (not >>many gcc >>developers actually read gcc-help). I'm moving this discussion here. >> >>> I am interested in contributing to gcc for the gsoc 2016. >> >>Unfortunately, it seems GCC did not apply to participate in GSoC 2016 >>and the >>deadline passed already: >>https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-search=GCC >> >>It also seems we did not apply last year either (at least >>https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode does not show any accepted >>projects for >>2015). >> >>I think some of us would be interested in mentoring students if they >>match >>their preferred project [*] (thus, it is better to propose several >>projects and >>see if a mentor is interested than to try to find a mentor for your >>preferred >>project). >> >>However, applying to GSoC requires some paperwork and commitment >>besides >>mentoring, and GCC is lacking developers and existing developers have >>no free >>time to dedicate to this. >> >>> One of the projects listed a few years back, “Converting different >>program representations level of GCC back to the source code” seems >>really interesting to me, and I’d like to discuss the possible ways >>this could be done. Who should I get into touch with? >>> >>> I’ve been doing research in extracting call graphs from binaries and >>analysing them and therefore have gathered sufficient information about >>Intermediate representations, compiler optimisations. And so feel I >>might be a good match for the project >> >>My advice to you or any other prospective GSoC student would be: >> >>a) Start publicly working on GCC now: >>https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted#Basics:_Contributing_to_GCC_in_10_easy_steps >> >>b) Get familiar with GCC devs on your area of interest. >> >>c) Convince them that a project of yours would be so useful and >>interesting >>that they better spent the time/effort to get GCC in the next GSoC. >> >>d) Once GCC is accepted by GSoC, we get so very few applications that >>anyone >>with a reasonable project (specially if they already have a willing >>mentor) is >>almost guaranteed to be accepted. >> >>I understand that the above is not ideal, much less useful for this >>year, but I >>don't have anything better to offer, sorry. You could also apply to >>LLVM. They >>are participating in GSoC this year: >>https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-search=LLVM >> >> >>Good luck, >> >>Manuel. >> >>[*] Projects I would be willing to mentor: >> >>* Replace libiberty with gnulib. See >>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-08/msg00362.html >>* Anything here: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Better_Diagnostics >>* Kill TREE_LIST (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Speedup_areas#Trees) >>* Kill TREE_VECTOR >>* Kill %qE (not pretty-printing of expressions) >>* Kill implicit input_location >>* Revive the gdb compile project >>(https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GCCCompileAndExecute), which seems >>dead. > > --joel
