Hi, The GNU project and the GCC project will participate in the Summer of Code that Google is organizing. See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-04/msg00273.html Since I know we have a couple of students already working on GNU Classpath, gcj and friends it seems the most effective way for Summer of Code projects to get a good result is if we ask everybody that is a student to check whether they qualify under the program http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html and then write up a proposal that would help the project and would take them about 2 months of work (there is a little bit more time, but remember that we will want full documentation, tests and hopefully integrate the result with the rest of the code). If you aren't a student, but would like to mentor a student please go through the current task lists and ideas for improvements: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathOpenTasks http://gcc.gnu.org/java/projects.html http://homepages.peakpeak.com/~tromey/free-java.html (Warning! Some of these are a bit out of date!) and select tasks that a student could do if they had 2 months to work on it full time. Assume they are smart, but might not have a lot experience and might need to learn some of the project customs, so even if you can integrate LLVM in a weekend that doesn't mean a student could, or that the result will be maintainable when finished :) Lets start collecting ideas at: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/SummerOfCode (We might move them later to the general GNU or GCC ideas pages.) Cheers, Mark -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/attachments/20060417/a19b1851/attachment.pgp
