Re: Summer of Code 2009

[Will Farrington]

On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Nick Roberts wrote:

> Daniel Clemente writes:
> > Hi,
> >  I think this is a very good opportunity to tackle the big projects  
> > which
> >  have been around for a long time and which would improve Emacs
> >  considerably.
> >
> >
> >  As examples:
> >
> > 1. Integrate CEDET into Emacs
> > -----------------------------
> >  This will ease support for other languages and integrate features  
> > like
> >  code completion, syntax checking, project handling, ... Some other  
> > tools
> >  like JDEE (Java support) or ECB could also be included.
> >
> >
> > 2. Good multithreading support for Emacs
> > ----------------------------------------
> >  This is much wanted, specially for background processes like  
> > checking
> >  mail. It is necessary to profit from multicore processors, very  
> > common
> >  nowadays.  There were already attempts to do this.
> > ...
>
>
> One SoC project involves a student working for about about twelve  
> weeks.  I'm
> not sure how much progress they could make with these tasks in this  
> time.  I
> would think it is better to have smaller clearly defined ones.
>
> --
> Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

As a student who participated in GSoC last year, I'd be thrilled to do  
work on Emacs.

Personally, as far as more-accomplishable tasks go, I'd recommend  
having a couple geared towards bringing various ports (namely the  
Cocoa one) up to feature parity with the others (namely the Gtk one).  
These would go a long way towards improving Emacs while being simple  
enough to work on to be accomplished within the 12-week limit.

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