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Re: Google Summer of Code projects for the GNU C Library.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, gscrivano at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:17:01 -0400
- Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code projects for the GNU C Library.
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On 04/07/2014 07:36 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>
> > I'm myself late with reviewing GSoC stuff, but I just noticed that there
> > are a lot of applications for glibc projects: ÂImproving malloc
> > implementation of GNU C library (one), ÂMath Testing (two), ÂISO C11
> > Threads (eight). However, no glibc person has commented on them so far,
> > or offered to be a mentor, and also no one has responded to JosÃ's call
> > for desired and essential slot requests,
> > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/summer-of-code/2014-04/msg00000.html>.
>
> That's probably because I don't know what I'm doing.
>
> I didn't know there was a summer-of-code mailing list, and it doesn't
> appear on the top-level lists on lists.gnu.org.
>
> Ouch! I assumed you subscribed there. Sorry for not being more
> explicit about it.
How do I subscribe?
> At present I think we have 1 essential slot requirement:
>
> * ISO C11 threads implementation.
>
> With 1 desired slot requirement:
>
> * Math testing.
>
> I don't see that we have the bandwidth to mentor more than that.
>
> Ok, I am noting 1 essential and 2 desired slots for glibc. If you want
> to change these numbers send me an email. We have to report the total
> count to Google this evening.
Thanks.
> BTW, we are still missing mentor information for glibc, which was
> requested some weeks ago. Please send me an email CCing
> gscrivano@gnu.org with the following information for each mentor:
>
> Id:
> Name:
> Email:
> AltEmail:
> Phone:
> Project:
> Ideas:
>
> Where Id is the corresponding melange user name for the mentor. The
> phone is important: our last resort contact point so we dont miss
> deadlines that could impact the whole org (such as the mid and final
> term student evaluations). The provided information is stored in a
> recfile http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/soc2014.rec. Note
> however that both the alternative email and the phone number are stored
> encrypted.
Information sent.
Cheers,
Carlos.