Hi, I was wondering how much I should announce publicly about GSoC proposals since students are not supposed to know in advance that we want any particular one before they are officially accepted or not by google, but I hope I will not overstep any line by saying the following:
(I am willing to invite any GCC contributer among the mentors, then you can look at the proposals at the GSoC "dashboard" website. You need gmail account for that, however.) On Thu, Mar 29 2018, Joseph Myers wrote: > Now the student application deadline has, I understand, passed, how do we > go about collectively deciding which are the best proposals to request > slots for? GCC has received 11 proposals for projects, but 7 of them were clearly unsuitable (two were completely blank, one was a link to a live google document with the string "WIP" in it, one contained only a short CV of the applicants, one was three lines suggesting we use a "linked list" and "hash tags" for memory management, there was also a proposal for driver able to compile C and python in different sections of a single file, and one proposal was just spam or an elaborate report on some past java project, I cannot tell) and 2 were inferior to the point that I also decided they should not be considered. None of these two was discussed on the mailing list and both were basically copied text from an (outdated) wiki page. The remaining two are strong candidates, both proposals were discussed at length here on the mailing list and so I asked for two student slots. My plan forward is basically to sincerely hope that we get two. If we get only one (IIRC we will know on April 10th), I will bring this question up here (but let's just toss a coin in that case). Generally speaking, I am somewhat disappointed that one or two topics that were also discussed on the mailing list did not eventually turn up among the proposals. I should have probably pinged one student and perhaps also two gcc developers a bit in order to make them come up with something. It also did not help that I was traveling to an important meeting in the US last week (and I had much less time for email than I thought I would). Nevertheless, it is mostly students' responsibility to come up with good projects and there is only so much we can do about it. However, if the community decides I should be the admin also next year, I believe I will be able to organize it slightly better. Martin
