On 8 Feb 2014 at 9:41, Antony Polukhin wrote:
Therefore, if you think yourself able to mentor a student doing some work on Boost this summer, *please* consider adding a description of the proposed work item and your name to the list at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014.
How about the following projects: * Running regression tests on Android/RaspberyRI/Qemu, writing a documentation about crosscompiing Boost libraries.
Sounds good for the Ideas section, not enough for a full GSoC. If you include a full port of anything not Android/RasPI compatible to those platforms, you definitely now have a full GSoC (even if the student only partially completes the task this summer). I also suspect Google prefers to fund anything improving things on Android, though I have no proof.
+ Adding automated TravicCI testing scripts to all the Boost libraries
That's definitely a full GSoC project.
* Library for basic integration with spreadsheet applications Excel/LibreOfficeCalc/OpenOfficeCalc and OfficePrograms (Modifying cell, getting results from cells, saving documents, saving in PDF)
I'm struggling to see why Boost here?
* Program protection and obfuscation tools (marking part of assembly at compilation, encrypting/decrypting part of the binary on-the-fly, detecting debuggers, detecting emulators and virtual machines, computer identification and gathering hardware specific identifiers...)
Similarly why Boost?
If there is an interest in those projects, I'll add some description to the GSOC wiki page.
Definitely +1 to the Travis CI work and improving Android/RasPI compatibility and testing. Feel free to add away to the GSoC page. Aside no 1: I may be able to help out with reviewing any Travis CI mentoring as AFIO uses Travis CI extensively. Aside no 2: If we do use Travis CI a lot, we ought to ask the Boost SC to make a regular donation to Travis CI as part payment for the service. I send them EUR5/year for what AFIO uses, they actually wrote me a nice hand written letter to thank me crazily enough. Niall -- Currently unemployed and looking for work in Ireland. Work Portfolio: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/nialldouglas/