[Python-Dev] Summer of Code: call for ideas and mentors

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at 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
>
>
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