On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Petr Rockai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: >> It's time for us to be thinking up projects for the Google Summer of >> Code. Ideas? > I wouldn't be generally opposed to participating as a student, although I'm > not > sure if anyone would be willing to mentor me. You might have rough idea what I > can bring to the table already... The natural idea for a project would be > medium-scale darcs optimisation (in the non-patch code). You can check the > last > hashed-storage mail for where I can reasonably offer substantial speedups for > darcs. I can throw in the file cache for a good measure, unless some existing > implementation floats around and gets integrated. > > Most other possibilities are way less tangible and prospective. I would stick > with the above project, there will be enough work getting this done, > especially > covering all the bases with automated testing and probably improving the > automated benchmarking tools as well to stay on track. > > Opinions? > > Yours, > Petr.
Another good possibility is a GUI for darcs; see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17 I've suggested that this could build on TortoiseDarcs. -- gwern _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
