From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Summer of Code projects for GNU Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:47:58 -0400 Message-ID: <87tzejvo5d.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <18561.17568.707274.807120@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216615697 12332 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 04:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 06:49:04 2008 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 4.50) id 1KKnKY-0003Hq-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:49:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnJf-0008E1-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnJa-0008Bk-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnJY-00089Z-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43164 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnJX-00089N-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-63-201-57.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.63.201.57]:16014 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKnJX-0002tx-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E0AC8C054; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:47:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <18561.17568.707274.807120@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:34:24 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:101046 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > In the past Emacs has not been directly involved but, assuming that Google run > a Summer of Code in 2009, I think that we should suggest some projects. It's > still a long way off but successful projects appeared to be quite organised, > e.g., > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html > > At the moment, I'm just looking for some consensus. > > For my part, I would like to suggest the migration of GDB in Emacs from > annotations to fully using GDB/MI and perhaps integration with ECB. I have > quite clear ideas about how to do that and I am willing to do the mentoring. > > But it would be good to have other suggestions, which would require mentoring, > too. Good idea. One project that I can think of is a rewrite or revamp of the customization code.