[Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

[Guilherme Polo]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Fetchinson
<fetchinson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> Summer of Code is ramping up.  Every year the common complaint is that
>>>> not
>>>> enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big
>>>> reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective
>>>> students is a link to the PEP index.
>>>>
>>>> So let's make this year different.
>>>>
>>>> Accepted students are paid a total of $4500 to work for roughly 30 hours
>>>> a
>>>> week, 12 weeks, on their proposed project.
>>>>
>>>> The challenge is finding project ideas for them that could reasonably
>>>> occupy
>>>> them for the entire Summer and which the results of their work can be
>>>> demonstrated.  They're being paid for specific projects so "Spend the
>>>> Summer
>>>> fixing bugs on the tracker" is a no-go, and Google has outlined that
>>>> Summer
>>>> of Code is about code, not documentation.
>>>>
>>>> I've seen and heard that a lot of work is still needed on
>>>> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk both during the 3.1 release
>>>> cycle,
>>>> optimization possible all over the place.  It'd be great if those of you
>>>> working closely with this can shout out some ideas, brainstorm a bit.
>>>>
>>>> PSF was announced as one of the mentoring orgs today, this week before
>>>> student applications are open is for students to talk to their
>>>> prospective
>>>> mentors and iron out the wrinkles in their plans, so there's not much
>>>> time
>>>> to get core project ideas together.
>>>
>>> How about porting PIL to 3.0?
>>> There were many such requests on python-list and image-sig (including mine
>>> :))
>>>
>>
>> I have ported it to the stage where its tests passes (which are far
>> from covering all the code) and some of my own tests, there is a git
>> repo on the image-sig that points to it. I wasn't really careful with
>> some of the things (and I would even consider redoing some of them),
>> but only one or two people got a copy of it so apparently people don't
>> want/need it on python 3.0 just yet (not it alone at least).
>
> I did a "git clone git://gpolo.ath.cx/pil-py3k.git" but it failed:
>
> gpolo.ath.cx[0: 189.7.18.241]: errno=Connection timed out
> fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
> fetch-pack from 'git://gpolo.ath.cx/pil-py3k.git' failed.
>

Thanks for noticing that, maybe more people had this same problem
then, I will consider using github or some similar service (or maybe
take the chance to bazaar, or mercurial, or svn, or..).

> By the way the reason I think few people checked it out is that people
> mostly are waiting for an "official" PIL release that is known to be
> stable. Did you try making your port part of the "official" PIL
> distribution?
>

I have talked with Fredrik, he said he would be running it on another
test suite to check how much of it really works. But, no, I didn't
really try pushing it to be integrated into the next PIL release and
it also wouldn't be possible without distributing a py3k version only
-- I didn't do the port with the ability to work in python 3.x and
python 2.x but this can be arranged.

> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
> --
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Regards,

-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves