On 01/17/2018 06:54 PM, Martin Jambor 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:
Hello. I would like to thank you Martin that I decided to take care of GSoC. Hopefully we'll find some newcomers for the projects. > > - 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 If there's an interest, I can specify in more detail these topics. Note that David Malcolm is also interested in 2b) and he's willing to be co-mentor. The topic 2b) can be enlarged to an overhaul of option handling, with possible rewritten of current AWK scripts. Martin > > 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 >
