[Scons-dev] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Now Accepting Applications for Mentoring Organizations for GSoC 2014

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:30 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:

>> Hi folks; if we want to get a GSoC project this year, now's the time to

>> think about it.

>>

>> Top of my priority list for a GSoC student would be someone to convert

>> everything to python3, finishing what we've started already.

>

> Can of worms. IMHO.

>

>> Other ideas?

>

> Concentrate on visualizing and documenting how SCons works. Cleaning

> up and opening internals to the public. Enhance test running, bring

> back slaves. List current workflows and tools discovery, research best

> practices and see how the tool discovery should be improved.

>

> Research and document the problem of compiling C programs.

> Research and document the problem of compiling C++ programs.

> Enhance documentation.

> Add more design touches.

> Integrate best practices from other projects.

>

> Fix async subprocess execution with proper handling of std* streams.


Also integrate with https://github.com/facebook/watchman to speed up
rebuilds (instead of scanning the whole tree again and again).

-- 
anatoly t.