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. > > -- > Larry Gritz > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
