Hello Mahout Community, My name is YC, and I'd like to open a discussion regarding a potential GSoC 2026 project targeting Issue #1080 <https://github.com/apache/mahout/issues/1080> (Rust code quality and website improvements for the Quantum Data Plane).
I am a Computer Science Master's student with a focus on systems programming and distributed systems. Having contributed to other Apache projects like Datafusion-comet and Ozone in the past, I am familiar with the Apache collaborative workflow and would love to bring that experience to Mahout. I am particularly interested in the challenge of bridging memory-safe systems programming in Rust with CUDA GPU acceleration. I've put together a draft proposal outlining a 12-week plan that focuses on: - Systematically refactoring broad unsafe blocks to minimal scopes and adding comprehensive // SAFETY: comments. - Add more test coverage - Achieving public API documentation coverage following RFC 505. - Building automated Python API doc generation for QuMat's PyO3 bindings to ensure Rust ↔ Python interface consistency. - Integrating cargo doc and Python API docs into the CI pipeline and deploying them to the Docusaurus site. To help visualize the approach, I have also submitted a draft PR that refactors unsafe blocks in dlpack.rs and sets up a new rustdoc.yml CI workflow. *Draft Proposal:* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PmuDMEUvwD8DQ8_Shz85b9pZEXCAofu1c7MiPahGoho/edit?usp=sharing *Draft PR:* https://github.com/0lai0/mahout/pull/1 Thanks everyone for your time and guidance. I'm looking forward to discussing this further and contributing to the project! Best regards, Yu-Chen Lai (YC) GitHub: @0lai0 <https://github.com/0lai0>
