From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:09:49 +0300 Message-ID: <8634nahu9u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bk20yoya.fsf@dataswamp.org> <86zfpjirkg.fsf@gnu.org> <877ccnj9dp.fsf@localhost> <86bk1zhrf5.fsf@gnu.org> <874j7qkj97.fsf@localhost> <87y152x5v8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87r0aui7ay.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37964"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 12 13:10:55 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sdSwx-0009io-2V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:10:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdSvx-00027I-Tj; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdSvw-00027A-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdSvw-0001OO-5T; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:09:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=rF7WEBejtdoEHz516p+IzI5/iQV/8EPOGJAhYD9iVNo=; b=hxZn4gbIiTw1 Eg3RiJjEQSdaEsdF6ieEr7P7NrJtWLbm5IdbIMoN2X4F6mUITbVSallIDl0Ay8wN4XTAlEOWn2bDb Hv1twMIJe4g0o9n2/ih/jX38H2tsQxCPtZywR4Ci1PVcsEXOfSaqeLureVWG4Rp91WimpYPz4QUzn IiOVhza7YSJusYstZGuZTsK4vLOdBoHeIB+nJp8Ype4x+zRlpVCWT8EwS7o4SeZDF4JDvgr4QV0VN YlGoXX/brCwgEgWvW7P+KObsgp9O1YJ/OnZ0OfJYsDFo1y848K+QHTyT2iqh8RF6oxbai4SLaSwHu NX3sIJjnw6Pave3ZvAha1A==; In-Reply-To: <87r0aui7ay.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:28:21 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:322664 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:28:21 +0000 > > Hmm. This reminds me of Google Summer of Code. > Eli, have you considered using GSC to get volunteers for implementing > some moderately difficult Emacs features? Since GSC provides financial > incentive, it may be possible to get student volunteers. > > Of course, someone still needs to mentor the students, but that's less > effort compared to actually writing all the code. People, including the other co-maintainers, are welcome to pursue this, but I personally have no free time or resources to do that. I can only say that it would be harder for a casual contributor to do a GSoC-style job for Emacs than for other projects, because Emacs has a lot of specialized needs and requirements that take time to learn. But maybe this is not an obstacle.