Google Summer of Code projects for the GNU C Library.

Wed Apr 9 18:17:00 GMT 2014

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: Â»Improving malloc
>     > implementation of GNU C libraryÂ« (one), Â»Math TestingÂ« (two), Â»ISO C11
>     > ThreadsÂ« (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.