I applied as mentor last year on some Tcl/Rivet related project. I
confess I lost contact with the whole GSoC, I never had some kind of
acknowledgment from Google about my application, I never had a bit of
feedback about the projects. I wish I could retry with more
determination but I need to size up the workload: it's going to be a
busy summer.
-- Massimo
On 02/13/2012 04:03 PM, Clif Flynt wrote:
On the near-term horizon is the 2012 Google Summer of Code. This
won't be a good place to look for the Apache interface, but it's a
good place to find someone willing to do relatively simple gruntwork.
Something like taking Harald's list of fixes, applying them and
testing is a decent summer task for an undergrad.
The wiki pages for the 2012 GSoC are
http://wiki.tcl.tk/28789
The requirements are that there be an ostensible adult to mentor the
student. You don't need to be physically co-located. I mentored a guy
from Poland for a couple years. Email, chats or skype are adequate
tools.
We've assembled some easy-to-swallow Tcl introductions at the Tcl
Community Association website to make it (relatively) easy for a
student to come to the project unable to spell Tcl and do useful work.
http://www.tclcommunityassociation.org
I don't know if Rivet has a comprehensive regression test. That
might be a good place for a GSoC student.
Extending/reworking some of the older code to new standards might
also be suitable for an undergrad.
One problem we have in the Tcl community with GSoC is too many PhD type
projects and too few Sophomore/Junior level projects.
The low-hanging fruit in the Tcl Core development was picked in the
20'th century.
Happy Tcl'ing,
Clif
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