From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com>
To: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Google Summer of Code - some ideas
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:46:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+5B0FOD+C=xOxOg3GD_Zczg3=MhvDhG42+mekQVgXf5sSGOJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I would like to work on Emacs itself for this year GSoC. I have
several projects in mind.
- Modules & FFI
I'm interested in adding a way to load compiled modules dynamically
and possibly add a FFI. I say possibly because the more I look into
into the more I realize it's not really helpful for complex stuff and
simple stuff are easy to do with a module. I know Joakim Verona
suggested to look into GObjectIntrospection which he implemented in
his xwidget branch but I have not looked at it yet. It's possible that
this project overlaps a bit with Daimrod's project [1] in which case
we could both work on it, I don't think it would be a problem.
I've also already posted on the mailing list about it [2] if you want
to know more.
- Internal documentation
I have started a "Hacker Guide" on the wiki few month ago [3] hoping
some people would jump in to help me (didn't happen :( ). Anyway Eli
gave me some advice and suggestions to improve it but I didn't have
the time to work on it. Ultimately this could end up in the manual. I
could also clean/fix some things as I document them.
- Support for library <FOO>
By support I mean expose the lib API to Emacs Lisp. I don't know which
lib could be added but I'm sure people here could make some
suggestions. This can be done to extend Elisp or to make it faster (or
both :).
All these are just ideas, you can always suggest something different
for any of them.
As for the credentials, I've already several contributions related to Emacs :
- raw strings patch which you can read more about on my blog [4]
- under-"waving" patch (accepted) [5]
- I've worked on org-mode in last year GSoC
Also I've already signed/sent the copyright assignment, so that's
done. Thought I should mention it.
So, If an emacs hacker is interested in mentoring any of these
projects please manifest yourself :) !
1: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/158990
2: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/151243
3: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HackerGuide
4: http://definitelyaplug.b0.cx/post/raw-strings/
5: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/147958
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-21 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-21 16:46 Aurélien Aptel [this message]
2013-04-21 17:16 ` Google Summer of Code - some ideas Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 17:25 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 17:53 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 23:05 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 18:34 ` joakim
2013-04-22 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-23 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 17:51 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-22 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:16 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-22 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:39 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-23 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-23 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 15:52 ` Lennart Borgman
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