That would be useful, I tried going through and fixing all the tests
and test failures last year.

Whilst I am probably fine on the python/boost python side I don't know
enough about oiio to really supervise.



On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Deadline is in 10 hours.
>
> So far, only one semi-enthusiastic mentor volunteer (Robert).
>
> I'd love to have a project to really give a good scrubbing to the Python 
> bindings, but it would need a Python expert to supervise it properly.
>
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Larry Gritz wrote:
>
>> The deadline is in about 10 days for applying to be a mentoring organization 
>> for GSoC 2013.  Although we've been very fortunate to participate for the 
>> last 4 years and it's truly been a huge boon to OIIO, I think we should give 
>> serious thought to whether or not to participate this year.
>>
>> As OIIO becomes a more mature code base, there are fewer and fewer projects 
>> that a student (usually undergrad, usually new to OIIO) could be expected to 
>> do to our satisfaction in the course of 12 weeks. It's a big investment of 
>> time on the part of the mentors (and especially me), and we wouldn't want to 
>> waste mentor or student time working on projects we don't really need or 
>> that at the end the summer would be left in a half-done state.
>>
>> On the other hand, you never know what students you'll get until you try, 
>> and we certainly have benefitted tremendously in the past, both in terms of 
>> features as well as recruiting continued contributors.  So I don't want to 
>> write it off.  But I do need you guys to let me know:
>>
>> * Project ideas -- what would be useful, and is likely to be completed to 
>> some level of satisfaction in about 12 weeks by an advanced undergraduate 
>> (or maybe a beginning graduate student).
>>
>> * Mentor volunteers -- under no circumstances can we accept more student 
>> projects than reliable mentors.
>>
>> I need a big enough selection of both to make it worth applying.  Please 
>> reply to this thread if you have input on either.  Suggesting a project does 
>> not commit you to being a mentor!  (Though of course doing both is better.)
>>
>> I have a few ideas, which I will suggest in my own follow-ups to this thread.
>
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