[Scons-dev] GSOC this year?

[William Deegan]

Jason,

Perhaps a GSoC student can help migrate some of your monkey patches from parts into the core where we can agree that such wouldn't be too complex for a student to understand?

-Bill
On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:50 AM, William Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:


> All,

> 

> We need to turn in the proposal by tomorrow.

> I've put up a google doc for the proposal here:

> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wOQGgUfdLlY355IC24YyB74i5Kg7uw-35A1Lsdos5aE/edit?usp=sharing

> 

> I've copied/pasted from the FAQ on what we should put in our proposal:

> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page#1._How_does_a_mentoring_organization

> 

> 

> So for mentors we have:

> * Myself

> * Russel Winder

> * Gary O (as a backup only)

> 

> For projects:

> * ? Please fill in on the doc.

> 

> I'm looking at Anatoly's list below and trying to figure out if this is reasonable for a student to complete in 12 weeks and/or how to partition the tasks below into chunks which are sized for completion.

> 

> Here's some other thoughts I have:

> * Change SCons code to be runnable on py2.7 and py3.0

> * Get SCons to work better/at all on cygwin

> * Change code to use more modern constructs (slots, generators/iterators)

> * Improve packaging (get it into pypy and make it work with python setup.py and also in virtualenvs)

> 

> -Bill

> 

> On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:37 AM, William Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

> 

>> Russel,

>> 

>> Today's the last day to file.

>> I'll go ahead and do that.

>> 

>> -Bill

>> On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:08 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

>> 

>>> Bill,

>>> 

>>> Did you put an entry in? I can be a mentor if you would like me to.

>>> 

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