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:
- 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
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
