[Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

[Benjamin Peterson]

2009/3/18 Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com>:
> I've heard from four people that improving 2to3 would be a great project
> (plus many more suggesting "port X to Python 3" as project ideas).

Ok. That's excellent.

>
> Note the SoC timeline;
> http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline
>
> So maybe it won't work for 3.1, but perhaps 3.1.1? 3.2?

Well, there won't be any major changes in 3.1.1, but 3.2 is definitely open.

>
> We should have many ideas up for students to consider.  The more student who
> apply and the more mentors we have ready determines how many students we get
> total.
>
> As part of this I should add, we need at least one mentor per student,
> preferably two.  These should be people familiar with and actively working
> in the area the student would be.  We're putting mentor contact info on the
> wiki so potential students can hash out the details with them before
> applying.




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Regards,
Benjamin