Re: Google summer of code

[Akim Demaille]

Le 9 mai 06 à 00:31, Satya Kiran a écrit :

> hi,
>
> I am a grad student studying at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
> I wanted to contribute to Bison through the Google Summer of Code
> program and I prepared this proposal.
>
> But somehow in the last minute my university tells me I am not
> eligible to participate in that program (and get paid) because I do
> not have a US work authorization yet.

Too bad.  I am sorry to read this, your proposal does seem sound.

> I decided to go ahead and contribute independently. That way, even
> though I don't get paid, I will (hopefully) learn something. So if
> there isn't anyone contributing to the same project through google
> summer of code, please consider mentoring me. My aim is to gain a
> thorough knowledge of bison internals and practical issues in
> implementation of parsing algorithms.

Well, this will depend whether this proposal is assigned or
not: several other candidates picked this topic.  Because Google
does not want student to work on the same topic, it would be
troublesome if you and a SOC'ed student worked together.

Nevertheless, even if BF error recovery is selected, there are
other tasks that can be assigned on Bison.  Your collaboration
would be most welcome.