Emmanuel, do you know if anyone from the Java Team might be interested in mentoring for this? I know they have a project up for the Android SDK, which is quite a bit more ambitious. I'm not actually sure if this project is large enough in scope.
- e PS: thanks all for your off-list messages of support. On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:30:28PM -0300, Leandro Doctors wrote: > Thanks for your email, Elana! > > Let's hope the project gets some attention from the other maintainers. > > Best, > Leandro > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 22:03, Elana Hashman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Leandro, >> >> I think this is a fabulous idea. Unfortunately, I do not have the >> bandwidth to take on a GSoC student this year. >> >> I'm bringing this to the attention of the wider Clojure team list as I >> think this is a great project and if someone has the time to mentor, >> I'd love to assist and see this happen. >> >> - e >> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:31:29PM -0300, Leandro Doctors wrote: >>> Dear Elana, >>> >>> My name is Leandro Doctors, and I am a fervient (albeit beginner) >>> Clojure user :-) >>> >>> I am seriously considering applying to GSoC 2020 with Debian. (In >>> fact, I have been looking for a while for a focused time to, >>> eventually, get closer to my goal of becoming a Debian Developer :-) >>> >>> Even though I didn't find any Clojure-related project in the ideas >>> list page[1], I have an idea I would like to work on: to improve >>> Clojure packaging in Debian. >>> >>> Although I don't have a full proposal draft yet, my idea involves >>> fixing #891136[2], #891141[3] and #902763 [4]. (Depending on the >>> progress on this, I could also try adding something else... That being >>> said, I don't want to underestimate this task - from what I could see >>> in your comments on those bugs, the required amount of work for >>> packaging the long dependency chain for clojure.specs.alpha seems >>> non-trivial...) >>> >>> Would you be able to mentor such a proposal? If you agree to mentor >>> this (or, suggest another developer who might be able to), I could >>> post the idea stub to the GSoC 2020 Ideas page. >>> >>> Looking forward to hearing from you soon, >>> Leandro >>> >>> >>> [1] GSoC 2020 Ideas page: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2020/Projects >>> >>> [2] #891136 "ITP: tools-deps-alpha-clojure -- functional API for >>> dependency management and classpath creation" >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891136 >>> >>> [3] #891141 "ITP: clojure-cli -- upstream CLI entrypoints for Clojure" >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891141 >>> >>> [4] #902763 "clojure: Include new CLI tools and runner scripts" >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902763
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