-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Karsten Ahnert Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:59 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] [GSOC] Are we going to participate?
Hi,
On 02/13/2013 11:06 PM, Boris Schaeling wrote:
Andrew was the GSoC administrator for Boost in the previous years but unfortunately has no time this year. So I jump in. I just created the Wiki page <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2013> and will send around another email in the coming days. For now I encourage everyone to brainstorm just like Antony did about what you would like to see in Boost. Google didn't invite us last year to participate in the program, and the reason was that we didn't have enough ideas/projects. So feel free to send ideas to this mailing list or add them to the Wiki page. For now no idea is too stupid - and even if it is, it might help someone else to get a good idea. :)
I would like to propose a GSOC project ideas aiming to implement a new feature for odeint. It would be really nice to have more implicit ODE solvers in odeint and an extended algebra/operations mechanism for matrices and solution of linear systems. This would widen the scope of the library enormously, since it directly addresses partial differential equations (PDEs) and enters the field of HPC.
This sounds a good project in that it is conceivably doable in 3 months, and can build on the existing infrastructure of testing and docs, and does not necessarily require a review (or only a mini one). My experience mentoring the Checks project is that it was possible to get to a reviewable state - but only because I had set up the infrastructure with a template for testing and docs. I think we would have made it to review if the student hadn't decided that there was a better way of doing it and so re-wrote it substantially! - and then his studies intervened ;-( This suggests to me that revision or rejuvenation or extension of existing libraries to produce 'Version 2' might provide good projects? Or picking up orphaned projects or libraries (endian? - Beman has more important jobs to do ;-) ) We seem to have a lot of nearly finished projects - and that means a lot of wasted work? Paul PS This does not exclude 'Blue Skies' projects suggested by Andrew Sutton where we can't expect a finished project. --- Paul A. Bristow, Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal LA8 8AB UK +44 1539 561830 07714330204 pbristow@hetp.u-net.com