Ok. I totally understand. I thought it worth a shot. On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 9:55 AM Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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. > >
