On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 11:16 -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote: > In another list I see that GNU has been accepted for Summer of Code > and is looking for projects. > > [If this is not appropriate here, let me know. I couldn't find a > general make developers list.] > > My suggesion regarding GNU Make has to do with getting some of the > goodness in the GNU Make fork remake back into GNU Make. But enough > about me. What is most in need of help in GNU Make that a summer > student might reasonably make progress on? > > Discuss the ideas here and contact me offline and I'll forward the > GNU contacts. (Or you probably can look them up for yourself if so > inclined. I am not a coordinator, I am just a backup mentor).
This is the right place to discuss this, I think. There are probably various things that could be usefully done for GNU make. However, there's one big issue: there is no way I can mentor anyone for GSoC. In fact, we had a GSoC project a long time ago, in one of the first years it was available. I was optimistic that I could spend the needed time but even back then I was an abject failure at it and things have certainly not gotten any better since. Proper mentoring requires significant time and resources, and I don't have either of those in abundance unfortunately.