From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Scrivano Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gsoc for concurrent Emacs? (was: Concurrency) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <87hbnvld3n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B754E74.8060705@swipnet.se> <27563610.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B7564C7.1010309@swipnet.se> <27564728.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B756FB7.3050202@swipnet.se> <87k4ui4gik.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <27566385.post@talk.nabble.com> <87wryi2sjd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <27585994.post@talk.nabble.com> <87k4ucdmwh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87d3zweq4e.fsf@master.homenet> <87y6hg1h4a.fsf@thor.thematica.it> <87tys3j9fa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87eij6tqmu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrws9zz4.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270115170 23032 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 09:46:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 11:46:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGyT-0005Da-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:46:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxGyS-0001B5-Kr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxGyK-0001Av-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37254 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxGyH-0001AZ-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:45:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGyF-0001Ka-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com ([209.85.220.227]:54752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGyF-0001KL-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:45:51 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so262340fxm.8 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:45:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=EwA2KSDGuJ6dko+8tpMEgROlbk30yG1CfgOPedMslTI=; b=YNRzgPjd0Gd/oTbbbT5L+wx6BYmiyETpUHh5ofdSzLLt7XGCCf5tB9DZ3MxH+PN4N3 EAtMJWmdumzLLueLkniEztZf8T2P5iquqgV/Ff7sANSt56KFWOswL8WHHxfeiSNfpwhd v+B26Gm+PtQ8gs2DqS/usXBTbswN16m/u+vss= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=rv45fHF7JP0AaeB/szXtkIGi23FVQmLRuseXcTJC3trOr//Re42H9r+s8jy/mY5tw9 4tjmMRmvPnkQ1Sot+AnFNInbH+eOSzKwAB3AYF+FckDM0Xb+ysKkGpS54H264DETdEyF L2nH1G+qcaAuUJ6lxLhVUF98kY4WWQhjMlX70= Original-Received: by 10.223.6.150 with SMTP id 22mr464110faz.12.1270115150177; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from black (dynamic-adsl-84-222-166-24.clienti.tiscali.it [84.222.166.24]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p9sm1680074fkb.33.2010.04.01.02.45.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=black) by black with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGyi-0003Ba-Mq; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:46:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87wrws9zz4.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:13:03 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123013 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > I think the concurrent Emacs project is nicely standalone and would make > a good GSoC project (see > http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2010.html, where Guile > integration is already mentioned). The concurrent Emacs branch > obviously needs some work, especially with documentation, but is > probably at a level suitable for an interested CS/CE student. I am not sure there are enough tasks at this point that a GSoC project is needed for the cooperative model we are using and I am afraid it is too early yet to think about a new one. AFAICS, the main activity to get the concurrent model working is bug-fixing. > I'm not the one to propose this but if Giuseppe or Tom want, they can > e-mail summer-of-code@gnu.org as the URL above suggests. GSoC requires > a mentor so it's not completely hands-off... If the Emacs maintainers think it is worthwhile, I am available for mentoring. Cheers, Giuseppe