Re: New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>>> We have etc/TODO which could be used as a source of ideas.
>>
>> Are there any specific todo items there that you view as more suitable
>> for people with limited experience in Emacs codebase?
>
> I agree with many of the reservations Eli has, but on the other hand
> this depends highly on what the projects will be.  Perhaps this could be
> a good way to attract new contributors, some of which will be found in
> the already existing Emacs community (parts of which do not interact
> much with emacs-devel).

Yup. I want to have some kind of shortlist of tasks that the
maintainers familiar with the code can suggest as student projects.

Then, we can eventually go out to reddit/mastodon/reach Sacha
Chua/Emacsconf to ask the community.

> So I'm basically all in favor of GSoC, but someone needs to do the work
> to get the ball rolling, for example with regards to suitable proposals.
> If someone were to propose a list of projects, then it would be easier
> for others to comment on it.  This could potentially also be used to
> expand the text that is currently in etc/TODO, to improve that file.
> If that's possible, the effort will never be wasted.

+1

> Another thing that would be useful in this regard is if people could
> indicate their interest in mentoring students, even tentatively.
> As for me, I _might_ have the time to act as mentor, but that is highly
> tentative as I didn't consider or think about that very closely.  It
> would also depend on the project idea, of course.

I am also considering mentoring, but that will be for Org mode.

I think that it is a good idea to shortlist things from TODO file before
asking potential mentors. Simply to prioritize projects that are deemed
important by the maintainers.

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