[GSoC] Question about continuing a 2025 project in GSoC 2026

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi Arijit, Martin!

On 2026-02-06T12:12:19+0100, Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06 2026, Arijit Kumar Das via Gcc wrote:
>> I am Arijit Kumar Das. I worked in GSoC 2025 on the project “Implementation of a
>> simple in-memory file system for running offloading tests on NVIDIA GPUs.” The
>> work was partially completed, and I am interested in continuing it in
>> GSoC 2026 by
>> submitting a new proposal building on last year’s developments (for example, by
>> implementing an RPC mechanism).
>>
>> I would like to ask whether submitting such a continuation proposal would be
>> acceptable this year, or whether the community would prefer that I focus on a
>> different, currently listed project instead.
>
> It is acceptable and even welcome as far as I am concerned.

Yes, I concur.

> Nevertheless, please check with your mentors, (Thomas and Tobias, but I
> expect mainly Thomas) first.

(Arijit and I had already started discussing this in personal email.)

I didn't intend to put that follow-on project onto
<https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode> (..., unless this would be good
"for Google reasons" -- Martin?): at the high level, you (Arijit) and I
are already aligned on what should be done, so I'm looking forward to:

> If they are OK with it, then please
> present the follow-up project here for broader discussion as well.

... this, and then eventually your GSoC project submission, once:

> (All this assumes we will get accepted as a mentoring organization, of
> course.)

... this has been cleared.  (Fingers crossed.)


Grüße
 Thomas