Re: Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas

[Martin Jambor <mjambor at suse dot cz>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 18 2018, Martin Liška wrote:
> On 01/17/2018 06:54 PM, Martin Jambor wrote:
>
...
>> 
>> 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
>
> If there's an interest, I can specify in more detail these topics.

First, we'll need (just) enough info to make the idea attractive for
students.  Then they will need to write a project proposal with
milestones and stuff
(https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal).  I am
not sure how involved we will be at that point, but perhaps it is a good
idea to think about milestones anyway.

> Note that
> David Malcolm is also interested in 2b) and he's willing to be co-mentor.
> The topic 2b) can be enlarged to an overhaul of option handling, with possible
> rewritten of current AWK scripts.

I am still a bit sceptical about the b option.  IIRC there was an
objection on the IRC that rewriting AWK scripts would require extensive
testing in a wide variety of often obscure environments.  That may make
it ill-suited for GSoC.  But well... I am not strictly against it, but
we may need to set the expectations accordingly ...which may not make it
attractive neither for students not for Google.

Martin