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