Hi Yu-Chen Lai, Thanks for your proposal for GSoC 2026, I have taken a quick look at your proposal and it looks good overall. Feel free to ask questions on Mahout Community Sync if you need any help.
Best Regards, Jie-Kai Chang On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 11:02 PM Lai瑀辰 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Mahout Community, > > My name is YC, and I'd like to open a discussion regarding a potential > GSoC 2026 > project targeting Issue #1080 <https://github.com/apache/mahout/issues/1080> > (Rust code quality and website improvements for the Quantum Data Plane). > > I am a Computer Science Master's student with a focus on systems > programming and distributed systems. Having contributed to other Apache > projects like Datafusion-comet and Ozone in the past, I am familiar with > the Apache collaborative workflow and would love to bring that experience > to Mahout. > > I am particularly interested in the challenge of bridging memory-safe > systems programming in Rust with CUDA GPU acceleration. I've put together a > draft proposal outlining a 12-week plan that focuses on: > > - > > Systematically refactoring broad unsafe blocks to minimal scopes and > adding comprehensive // SAFETY: comments. > - > > Add more test coverage > - > > Achieving public API documentation coverage following RFC 505. > - > > Building automated Python API doc generation for QuMat's PyO3 bindings > to ensure Rust ↔ Python interface consistency. > - > > Integrating cargo doc and Python API docs into the CI pipeline and > deploying them to the Docusaurus site. > > To help visualize the approach, I have also submitted a draft PR that > refactors unsafe blocks in dlpack.rs and sets up a new rustdoc.yml CI > workflow. > > *Draft Proposal:* > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PmuDMEUvwD8DQ8_Shz85b9pZEXCAofu1c7MiPahGoho/edit?usp=sharing > > *Draft PR:* https://github.com/0lai0/mahout/pull/1 > > Thanks everyone for your time and guidance. I'm looking forward to > discussing this further and contributing to the project! > > Best regards, > > Yu-Chen Lai (YC) > > GitHub: @0lai0 <https://github.com/0lai0>
