[Soc-coordination] Call for Projects & Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2012

[Russ Allbery]

Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> writes:

> I think we can dig out a project or two.  Actually, I already did...
> Some of you may remember I suggested that we created the
> "lintian-harness" frontend[1]. :)

> As I understood Ana on IRC, it could be useful to divide the project
> into two parts.  A small "get started" part and a larger "the real deal"
> part.  I was thinking something like:

>  1. part harness test-suite ("get started")
>     - I got some sample scripts that might be useful for the student
>       get started.
>  2. part rewritten harness frontend ("the real deal")
>     - Based on the spec in [1], but possible with some changes to it.

> Do people think this is a reasonable size for a project?

Yeah, I think that's a reasonably-sized project.  (And it would be great
to have that done!)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>