On 8 Feb 2014 at 22:26, Antony Polukhin wrote:
I'm struggling to see why Boost here?
Boost is everywhere. We already have libraries that wrap around MPI, manipulate images using 3rd party libraries, unify multiprecision libraries. We have GSOC ideas for physics, databases and audio, so why not office?
Well, no reason I suppose. But I will say this: students tend to prefer very well defined work items i.e. working on nearly finished libraries, or extending incrementally already finished libraries. They tend to have substantial problems with anything too greenfield, they get overloaded. You can of course propose the two greenfield projects, but if a student shows interest you need to be absolutely sure they understand fully what writing a brand new library involves. You may remember one project in last year's GSoC where we had very significant problems in one greenfield project because the student kept throwing away and rewriting the project, so in the end while they learned a lot and the GSoC was a success, they didn't actually produce much finished code. Niall --- Boost C++ Libraries Google Summer of Code 2014 admin https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014