Re: [boost] Google Summer of Code 2018

17 Jan 2018

      Hi Tom,

to make it short, yes I think it could be a good contribution. I'm sure we
can find a mentor too to help you on your project.
If you can write a short proposal and add it to
https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/SoC2018 that would be great.

Best,
David

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Tom Westerhout via Boost <
boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
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Dear Boost community,
once again this year, we will apply to be a mentoring organization for
On 10/01/2018, David Bellot via Boost  wrote:
the
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Google Summer of Code 2018. Our organization has been quite succesful for
the last decade and this year we hope to be selected again.
As part of filling in our application for 2018, we must supply to Google
a
list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects for summer
2018
in order to be approved as an organisation this year.
Therefore a lengthy page of awesome project ideas at
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2018 before *January 23rd*
would
be an enormous help to getting us approved again this year and bringing
to
Boost another Google funding (worth dozens of thousands of dollars on
average).
A student here rather than a mentor, but I'd still like to propose a
project. Last year we had a Boost.StaticMap[1] project which evolved into
Boost.StaticViews[2]. Niall Douglas was kind enough to mentor me during
the summer.
Boost.StaticViews is a very small C++14 library for manipulation of
compile-time data ("constexpr"-level, not "type"-level). It consists of
two layers: low-level views and non-owning containers implemented on top
of them. The views part resembles some similarity with Ranges and
could in the future be replaced by it if/when Ranges reach the high
enough level of constexpr-ness. As for the containers part, currently it
has an implementation of a static_map, a non-owning hash table with
amortized O(1) accesses which are completely optimised away if input is
available at compile-time.
Although the last GSoC lay some good foundation, quite a bit of work
still needs to be done before StaticViews can be proposed for inclusion
into Boost. With high study load I can't find enough time to seriously
work on the library now, but I believe that with some mentoring I should
be able to bring in to review-ready state during summer vacation.
Does this seem like a project Boost community could benefit from? If so,
are there any volunteers who would be willing to guide me?
Thanks in advance!
[1] https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/SoC2017
[2] https://github.com/BoostGSoC17/static-views
Tom
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