Hello automakers. Good news: GNU has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's GSoC (Google Summer of Code), and the GNU "Project Suggestion" page at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2011.html> lists a couple of Automake-related projects for which an application could be submitted.
Now, barring last-minute problems, I should be elegible to partecipate as a student to GSoC, so I'd like to submit applications for those two projects. So, here I'm going to post my first drafts for those applications, with the hope of getting criticism, suggestions, and general feedback. This would help my proposals (and thus the new features that will result from them, in case they are accepted) to be more informed about, and moulded by, the opinions, needs and experiences of a real user base. I'll post each proposal in its own follow-up message, in order to keep the thread nicely strucured. Thanks, Stefano