Hi all. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2023 has just been announced. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/11/get-ready-for-google-summer-of-code-2023.html
Django has participated many times, and it's been a real boon. Recent successes include: * The django-stubs mypy plugin. * The cross-db JSON field. * The Redis cache backend. * Per model-class (field instance) custom lookups * Setup of the django-asv benchmarking project. * ... Application deadline for Orgs is February 7. I'll begin working on it after the New Year. Main bit is an ideas list for projects. The GSoC guide has a Writing a Good Ideas List section. > Projects should take ~175 hours or ~350 hours for GSoC contributors to complete. i.e. "short" or "long" projects. https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list I'm writing here *to solicit input on project ideas*. I put "Technical Board?" in the subject because we're short a list of project ideas for the technical direction of Django going forward, and maybe thinking in terms of GSoC could be a way of bootstrapping that. The "?" is because that's not meant to exclude other input. Here's last year's list for reference: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2022 - Some of those were done: benchmarking (but that could be built on) and per-instance field lookups. - Rate-limiting is a no-go I think: we couldn't come to any decent agreement on scope, so it's better to live as a third-party package. - I've tried to include folks from the wider ecosystem in previous years. Two years ago we had both Wagtail and django-stubs projects. Wagtail then (last year) applied in their own right, to great success. I'd like to offer that help again to e.g. Jazzband or other established projects, assuming maintainers feel they have the capacity to mentor. (It's a minor increment to my effort for a good return I think.) No urgency but, can I ask you to put your grey cells into action? 🙂 Thanks. Kind Regards, Carlton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/194b43ff-98cf-4736-8360-3d79e9b62402n%40googlegroups.com.
