On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Niall Douglas
I think the quality of your GSoC last year qualifies you as competent in C++, so you don't need to take any programming competency test this year to be preferentially ranked. I think Vicente would concur with me that you're considerably above the average GSoC candidate in programming ability.
It's very kind of you.
All you need is a mentor. Or, if you feel like mentoring another student in Pipeline this summer ...?
I'd rather like to participate as a student, it's my last chance.
I would though Benedek try to be flexible about your choice of project if you want to be sure to get a mentor (Vicente is already very overloaded every year). For example, a very attractive intermediate GSoC might be working on Boost.Fiber, specifically I am thinking some form of awareness of i/o in Fiber maybe. And Fiber ought to be up for its second review shortly, after which it enters Boost. From my short review of Fiber this week, it has very considerably improved over the review last year.
Actually, since Pipeline would be a fiber user, it's a great idea. Inter-thread fiber migration is something a good scheduler would need. Probably we can came up with something with Oliver when the time comes. Benedek