Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code

2016-02-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
As long as it's been brought up here: Yes, the PSF is applying. Google has been deliberately stirring things up in the last couple of years, so no promises, but it is very likely that we will be approved and core Python will have at least two slots allocated (although I'm not sure core Python eve

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code

2016-02-07 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 at 02:14 Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose the FAT Python project subject to the Google > Summer of Code: > https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ > > I have a long list of optimization ideas for fatoptimizer: > http://fatoptimizer.readthedocs.or

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code

2016-02-07 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I would like to propose the FAT Python project subject to the Google Summer of Code: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ I have a long list of optimization ideas for fatoptimizer: http://fatoptimizer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/todo.html The fatoptimizer project is written in pure

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code

2015-03-21 Thread Jim Baker
Jython plans to participate in the Google Summer of Code for 2015. If you are interested, I have outlined a number of projects on our ideas page that students could work on: - Work on JyNI, which adds C extension API support to Jython - Performance optimizations, including startup time -

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code 2014: Looking for core python mentors!

2014-02-06 Thread Terri Oda
For anyone who completely isn't familiar with this: Google Summer of Code is a program where Google pays students to work on open source projects for the summer. The motto goes: "Flip bits, not burgers." Google Summer of Code applications are open for mentoring organizations, and I've already

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code - Organization Deadline Approaching - March 29

2013-03-27 Thread Terri Oda
On 03/26/2013 01:51 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: Just an FYI that there are under 3 days to apply to Google Summer of Code for mentoring organizations: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013. The student application deadline is later on in May. If you run a project that is intere

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code - Organization Deadline Approaching - March 29

2013-03-26 Thread Brian Curtin
Just an FYI that there are under 3 days to apply to Google Summer of Code for mentoring organizations: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013. The student application deadline is later on in May. If you run a project that is interested in applying under the Python umbrella org

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-13 Thread Walter Dörwald
C. Titus Brown wrote: > [...] > I have had a hard time getting a good sense of what core code is well > tested and what is not well tested, across various platforms. While > Walter's C/Python integrated code coverage site is nice, it would be > even nicer to have a way to generate all that inform

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread Ron DuPlain
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:38 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: > Unquestionably "core" by my criteria above: > > 3to2 tool -- 'nuff said. I worked on the 3to2 tool during the sprint last week at PyCon. I can chip in for GSoC in the event it does get picked up. -Ron PS - I'm out of town next week for

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The student will also provide some plugins for a maximum number of > existing keyring systems. > Some of these plugins might be included in Distutils, and some of them > in a third-party package. This is slightly better, but see my previous message (that is feature creep in distutils, and likely

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> -> I'm also skeptical that this is a good SoC project in the first place. > > What is a good SoC project from your point of view ? As a core project - tricky. Implement some long-standing complex feature request, or fix a pile of outstanding bug reports for a module (like th

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I'm using "core projects" as a shorthand for projects that directly > address the core development environment, the stdlib, and priorities of > committers on python-dev. Tarek is a committer, and it sounded like > you, Jim, and Georg were all interested in this project, too -- that > pushes it w

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Ok what about this then: I am changing the scope a little bit, and I think the students will be fine with this change since it's the same work. "The project will consist of creating a plugin system into Distutils to be able to store and retrieve the username/password used by some commands, without

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread Tarek Ziadé
> -> I'm also skeptical that this is a good SoC project in the first place. What is a good SoC project from your point of view ? > -> Coming up with a wrapper for, say, Apple Keychain, could be a good > -> project. Coming up with a unifying API for all keychains is out of > -> scope, IMO; various

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 08:13:35AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: -> > 2x "keyring package" -- see -> > http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/pycon-hallway-session-1-a-keyring-library-for-python/. -> > The poorer one of these will probably be axed unless Tarek gives it -> > strong support. -

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Mario wrote: -> > He says vague things about patches too, but I'm not sure what. If he -> > wanted to make that into a 'patchbot' that just applied every patch in -> > isolation and ran 'make && make test' and posted results in the -> > tracker I'd be a ha

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread Mario
> > > He says vague things about patches too, but I'm not sure what. If he > wanted to make that into a 'patchbot' that just applied every patch in > isolation and ran 'make && make test' and posted results in the > tracker I'd be a happy camper. > > Jack, how about you write that idea down on the

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 2x "keyring package" -- see > http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/pycon-hallway-session-1-a-keyring-library-for-python/. > The poorer one of these will probably be axed unless Tarek gives it > strong support. I don't think these are good "core" projects. Even if the students come up with

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread Jack diederich
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:38 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: [megasnip] > roundup VCS integration / build tools to support core development -- >        a single student proposed both of these and has received some >        support.  See http://slexy.org/view/s2pFgWxufI for details. >From the listed web

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:05:02PM -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: -> 2009/4/10 C. Titus Brown : -> > 2x "improve testing tools for py3k" -- variously focus on improving test -> > ?? ?? ?? ??coverage and testing wrappers. -> > -> > ?? ?? ?? ??One proposes to provide a nice wrapper to make nose and

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/4/10 C. Titus Brown : > 2x "improve testing tools for py3k" -- variously focus on improving test >        coverage and testing wrappers. > >        One proposes to provide a nice wrapper to make nose and py.test >        capable of running the regrtests, which (with no change to >        regrt

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread Guilherme Polo
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:02 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:53:23PM -0300, Guilherme Polo wrote: > -> > > -> > IDLE/Tkinter patch integration & improvement -- deal with ~120 tracker > -> > ? ? ? ?issues relating to IDLE and Tkinter. > -> > > -> > -> Is it important, for the

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Well, I think Numpy is of huge importance to a major Python user segment, the scientific community. I don't know if that makes it 'core', but I strongly agree that it's important. Better testing is always useful, and more "core", but IMO less important. -T On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:38 AM, C. Titu

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:53:23PM -0300, Guilherme Polo wrote: -> > -> > IDLE/Tkinter patch integration & improvement -- deal with ~120 tracker -> > ? ? ? ?issues relating to IDLE and Tkinter. -> > -> -> Is it important, for the discussion, to mention that it also involves -> testing this area (i

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread Guilherme Polo
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:38 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: > Hi all, > > this year we have 10-12 GSoC applications that I've put in the "relevant > to core Python development" category.  These projects, if mentors etc > are found, are *guaranteed* a slot under the PSF GSoC umbrella.  As > backup GSoC

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi all, this year we have 10-12 GSoC applications that I've put in the "relevant to core Python development" category. These projects, if mentors etc are found, are *guaranteed* a slot under the PSF GSoC umbrella. As backup GSoC admin and general busybody, I've taken on the work of coordinating

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-28 Thread Facundo Batista
2008/2/28, James Tauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The Google Summer of Code is on again and I've been asked to coordinate > the PSF's involvement. These are great news, specially the second one, :) Regards, -- .Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-28 Thread James Tauber
The Google Summer of Code is on again and I've been asked to coordinate the PSF's involvement. You can find out more about GSoC at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ There is also a page on the Python wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode Although the PSF does act as an umbrella organizat

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-07 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
On 3/7/07, James Tauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would *strongly* encourage the submission of some Jython projects > under the PSF umbrella. Great! I'll do my best to get some submitted. -Frank ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org htt

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-07 Thread James Tauber
While I guess there's nothing to stop Jython applying in its own right, it makes far more sense to be under the umbrella of PSF. PyPy projects last year were under PSF, for example. I would *strongly* encourage the submission of some Jython projects under the PSF umbrella. James On 07/03/2

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-07 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
On 3/7/07, James Tauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google's Summer of Code is on again! > > I'm in the process of submitting the application for PSF to again be > a mentoring organization. > Because I would like core Python projects to be well represented, I > particularly encourage python-dever

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-07 Thread James Tauber
Google's Summer of Code is on again! I'm in the process of submitting the application for PSF to again be a mentoring organization. A mailing list has been set up for people who are interested in mentoring for the PSF. If you aren't able or willing to mentor but still want to participate in

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-29 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, Mateusz Rukowicz wrote: > I wish to participate in Google Summer of Code as a python developer. I > have few ideas, what would be improved and added to python. Since these > changes and add-ons would be codded in C, and added to python-core > and/or as modules,I am not sure, if you are wi

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for workwith binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-26 Thread Terry Reedy
"Josiah Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Then again, you already have your own implementation of a tree module, > and it seems as though you would like to be paid for this already-done > work. I don't know how google feels about such things, They are explic

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-26 Thread Josiah Carlson
"Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josiah Carlson wrote: > > There exists various C and Python implementations of both AVL and > > Red-Black trees. For users of Python who want to use AVL and/or > > Red-Black trees, I would urge them to use the Python implementations. > > In t

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-26 Thread Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov
Hye-Shik Chang wrote: > On 4/25/06, Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the answer, but after application of a patch on python-2.4.3 >> I could not compile it. A conclusion of a stage of compilation in the >> attached file. >> >> > > Aah. The patch is for Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-26 Thread Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov
Josiah Carlson wrote: There exists various C and Python implementations of both AVL and Red-Black trees. For users of Python who want to use AVL and/or Red-Black trees, I would urge them to use the Python implementations. In the case of *needing* the speed of a C extension, there already exist

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-26 Thread Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov
Josiah Carlson wrote: There exists various C and Python implementations of both AVL and Red-Black trees. For users of Python who want to use AVL and/or Red-Black trees, I would urge them to use the Python implementations. In the case of *needing* the speed of a C extension, there already exist

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-24 Thread Hye-Shik Chang
On 4/25/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There exists various C and Python implementations of both AVL and > Red-Black trees. For users of Python who want to use AVL and/or > Red-Black trees, I would urge them to use the Python implementations. > In the case of *needing* the speed

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-24 Thread Facundo Batista
2006/4/22, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am now quite sure, what I would like to do, and is possible by you to > accept - code decimal in C, most important things about that would: I'd be glad to mentor this. Regards, .Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-24 Thread Josiah Carlson
There exists various C and Python implementations of both AVL and Red-Black trees. For users of Python who want to use AVL and/or Red-Black trees, I would urge them to use the Python implementations. In the case of *needing* the speed of a C extension, there already exists a CPython extension mo

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-24 Thread Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov
I would like to participate in Google Summer of Code. The idea consists in creation of a specialized class for work with binary trees AVL and RB. The part of ideas is taken from Parrot (Perl6) where for pair values the specialized type is stipulated. As advantages it is possible to note: * High s

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: New class for work with binary trees AVL and RB as with the standard dictionary.

2006-04-24 Thread Vladimir 'Yu' Stepanov
I would like to participate in Google Summer of Code. The idea consists in creation of a specialized class for work with binary trees AVL and RB. The part of ideas is taken from Parrot (Perl6) where for pair values the specialized type is stipulated. As advantages it is possible to note: * High s

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-22 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Alex Martelli wrote: >I see "redo Decimal in C" (possibly with the addition of some fast >elementary transcendentals) and "enhance operations on longs" >(multiplication first and foremost, and base-conversions probably >next, as you suggested -- possibly with the addition of some fast >number-theo

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Ewing
Alex Martelli wrote: > gmpy.c > #include's gmp.h and uses (==expands) some of the C macros there > defined -- doesn't that make gmpy.o a derived work of gmp.h? Assuming that gmp.h is the header which defines the public interface of the gmp library, any code which uses it as a library will be inclu

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Alex Martelli wrote: > On 4/21/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >>> GMP is covered by LGPL, so must any such derivative work >> >> But the wrapper is just using GMP as a library, so >> it shouldn't be infected with LGPLness, should it? > > If a lawye

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Alex Martelli
On 4/21/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > GMP is covered by LGPL, so must any such derivative work > > But the wrapper is just using GMP as a library, so > it shouldn't be infected with LGPLness, should it? If a lawyer for the PSF can confidently assert that gmpy is not a deriva

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Ewing
Alex Martelli wrote: > GMP is covered by LGPL, so must any such derivative work But the wrapper is just using GMP as a library, so it shouldn't be infected with LGPLness, should it? -- Greg ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Josiah Carlson
"Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Mateusz Rukowicz] > >> And last thing - It would be nice to add some number-theory functions to > >> math module (or new one), like prime-tests, > > If they think doing much more here is out of bounds for them, trying > to sneak it into longobject.c is c

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 4/21/06, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OTOH, the decimal type > has potentially unbounded precision already, and the math-module > functions have no idea what to do about that. Perhaps some non-gonzo > (straightforward even if far from optimal, and coded in Python) > arbitrary-precisi

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Alex Martelli
On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > So I think the most valuable of my ideas would be improving long int + > coding decimal in C. Anyway, I think it would be possible to add other > ideas later. I see "redo Decimal in C" (possibly with the addition of some fast element

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Tim Peters
[Mateusz Rukowicz] >> I wish to participate in Google Summer of Code as a python developer. I >> have few ideas, what would be improved and added to python. Since these >> changes and add-ons would be codded in C, and added to python-core >> and/or as modules,I am not sure, if you are willing to ag

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Guido van Rossum wrote: >(Aside: you probably mean physicist, someone who practices physics. A >physician is a doctor; don't ask me why. :-) > > > ;) I'll remember ;) >>interpreted languages are particularly good for physics simulations, in >>which small error would grow so much, that results a

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Alex Martelli wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Aahz wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006, Mateusz Rukowicz wrote: >> >>> >>> Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to >>> the core and fraction type, which in some cases highly improves >>> operations, which would have to b

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Alex Martelli
On Apr 21, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Aahz wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006, Mateusz Rukowicz wrote: >> >> Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to >> the core and fraction type, which in some cases highly improves >> operations, which would have to be done using floating point instea

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Aahz
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006, Mateusz Rukowicz wrote: > > Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to > the core and fraction type, which in some cases highly improves > operations, which would have to be done using floating point instead. > Of course, math module will need update to s

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to the > >>core and fraction type, which in some cases highly improves operations, > >>which

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Guido van Rossum wrote: >On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to the >>core and fraction type, which in some cases highly improves operations, >>which would have to be done using floating point instead. >>Of c

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish to participate in Google Summer of Code as a python developer. I > have few ideas, what would be improved and added to python. Since these > changes and add-ons would be codded in C, and added to python-core > and/or as modules,I am n

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
I wish to participate in Google Summer of Code as a python developer. I have few ideas, what would be improved and added to python. Since these changes and add-ons would be codded in C, and added to python-core and/or as modules,I am not sure, if you are willing to agree with these ideas. First of

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: Pdb improvments

2006-04-20 Thread Kuba Konczyk
I've found thread on python-dev related to pdb's weaknesses: http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg05115.html The opinions are that pdb is 'one of the more unPythonic modules' and must be 'seriously fixed'.I have similar experience with pdb's internals but I want to know others opin