Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas

[Martin Jambor]

On Fri, Jan 19 2018, Martin Jambor wrote:
> 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.
>

Ah no, I confused myself.  That was Joseph's issue with the idea of
replacing libiberty with gnulib.  The problem with this one was getting
a consensus to move away from AWK to python which would introduce a new
dependency of the gcc project.  Someone experienced (and determined)
from the community would have to drive that decision, we may not expect
a newcomer, let a alone a student, to do it.

Sorry for the confusion,

Martin