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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
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 19:17:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bk1xima6.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8634nahu9u.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

> 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.

May you elaborate?
The interested students will likely also be at least casual Emacs users.
So, some degree of familiarity is expected.
Other than that, how is Emacs dramatically different from working with
any other large codebase?

> People, including the other co-maintainers, are welcome to pursue
> this, but I personally have no free time or resources to do that.

Adding Stefan and Andrea to CC.

To add more details, FSF/GNU qualifies as a valid mentor organization
for GSoC. Org mode project even participated in it in the past:
https://orgmode.org/worg/archive/gsoc2012/orgmode-gsoc2012-ideas.html
AFAIR, there was a request from GNU this spring to submit proposals.

So, what I am talking about is not a theoretical idea. It can be done.

What is needed is a formulation of projects/features that are desired.
Mentors do not have to be maintainers. Experienced Emacs contributors
can be the mentors (also, mentoring a student can be a good addition to
some types of CVs).

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-12 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-10 22:48 as for Calc and the math library Emanuel Berg
2024-08-11  4:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 16:45   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-11 16:55     ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-11 17:05     ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-11 17:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 18:17       ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-11 18:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 19:53           ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-11 18:27       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-11 18:38         ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-12  6:28           ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library) Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12 11:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-12 12:10               ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) Joel Reicher
2024-08-12 18:59                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12 22:28                   ` Pedro
2024-08-14 10:07                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-15 11:44                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12 19:17               ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-08-13  8:12                 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-08-18 11:48                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 12:35                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 12:52                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 13:39                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 13:56                           ` RTF import/export emacs (was: New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes)) Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 14:14                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 14:35                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 14:38                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 17:37                                 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-18 18:16                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 18:38                                     ` Jim Porter
2024-08-18 19:05                                       ` tomas
2024-08-13 11:02                 ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library) Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 11:09                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 11:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 11:33                     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-08-18 12:47                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-11 18:52         ` as for Calc and the math library Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 19:13           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12  2:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 21:50           ` Christopher Dimech
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-08-19 13:43 New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library) arthur miller

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