On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Google Summer of Code is coming up again, and we will again > be participating. Arc Riley will setup infrastructure later > today, and we need to start thinking about possible projects. > > Traditionally, people (students and other projects) have been willing > to give the Python Core the highest attention in SoC, as improvements > to Python will help the whole community. Also traditionally, there has > been a shortage of project ideas and mentors for Python Core. My guess > is that the project shortage stems from the assumption that many of the > projects are so tricky that you can't give them to a newcomer. I found > this view both confirmed and rebutted in the past - it all depends on > which students we can attract. > > The shortage of mentors is probably more inherent, and reflects the > shortage of volunteers for other tasks. As a long-time mentor, I'd > like to encourage all of you to consider mentoring this year. GSoC/PSF > will have a strict rule "one student per mentor", co-mentorship > is encouraged. > > Feel free to discuss Python-Core-GSoC here or on the GSoC mailing > list(s) (soon to appear).
Hi Martin. Would you consider working on benchmarking (http://speed.pypy.org but also infrastructure for running it) a part of core GSoC work? I can imagine this to be useful not only for pypy and preferably also running CPython trunk on benchmarks. > > One last cautioning: recently, people started proposing that admin > tasks be done in GSoC. While that indeed may help python-dev most, > they called it summer of *code* deliberately - so the project idea > should be about programming (the hope being, of course, that the > students stay in the project, or at least in open source, when the > summer is over. some do, some don't.). > > Regards, > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fijall%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
