[llvm-dev] [GSoC] General Information

[Tobias Grosser via llvm-dev]

On 04/26/2016 08:48 PM, vivek pandya wrote:
> 
> 
> /*Vivek Pandya*/
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Tobias Grosser <tobias at grosser.es
> <mailto:tobias at grosser.es>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear LLVM summer of code students,
> 
>     let me congratulate you to your successful application!
> 
>     After your participation has been announced, its now time to start
>     with community bounding as preparation of the actual project start
>     on 23 May. To ensure your GSoC becomes a large success, I wrote down
>     some general information that has proven important in previous years.
> 
>     # GSoC and the LLVM community
> 
>     Besides your individual project goals, the primary objective of your
>     GSoC project is to establish yourself as a full and active member of
>     the LLVM community. It is your job to get in touch with the LLVM
>     community and to develop your project as part of the LLVM community.
>     This means you are invited to discuss your ideas with the LLVM
>     community, to submit your patches for public code review, and also
>     to participate as code-reviewer for patches that fall in your area
>     of expertise and match your level of knowledge. To ensure maximal
>     community involvement, LLVM has a well established tradition of
>     incremental development and you should follow this practice in your
>     GSoC project.
> 
>     # The role of the mentor
> 
>     You have been paired with one (or two) personal mentors, who will
>     support you throughout your summer of code project. Your mentor is
>     your first point of contact in case of any questions regarding your
>     GSoC project. His primary role is to ensure you are successfully
>     integrated with the LLVM community by ensuring you understand how to
>     discuss project ideas, how to obtain code reviews, and generally to
>     help you to understand the informal best practices in the LLVM
>     community. In many cases he will also provide reviews for your
>     patches, but please keep in mind that he is not your proxy to the
>     LLVM community, but you are expected to directly interact with the
>     whole community. In the optimal case, you learn quickly how to
>     obtain patch reviews yourself and how to discuss your ideas with the
>     full LLVM community. Your mentor will likely also give feedback, but
>     he is just one out of the many people in the community you will be
>     working with.
> 
>     Your mentor also evaluates your project and can change project
>     milestone if this should become necessary. However, we again suggest
>     to discuss changes to your agenda in public.
> 
>     # Media of communication
> 
>     This email is on-purpose sent to you through the
>     LLVM/cfe/safecode/Polly mailing lists. Mailing lists are the primary
>     medium of communication for LLVM. Other means such as IRC, phone or
>     personal meetings can complement email, but please ensure that all
>     important discussions either take part via the mailing lists or are
>     mirrored to the mailing lists by posting meeting reports or updates.
> 
>     # Reporting / Status updates
> 
>     To keep people informed about your work, we suggest each student to
>     implement regular reporting habits. As email is our primary medium
>     of communication, brief weekly status emails can be a nice way to
>     get your information out. If you send them before the week-end,
>     chances are
>     that some of your news show up in LLVM weekly.
> 
>     Previous students also often set up a GSoC blog to irregularly post
>     larger status updates, performance results, architecture diagrams, ...
> 
>     # GSoC administrative issues
> 
>     Please use the public mailing lists for all (non-sensitive)
>     administrative issues. You are likely not the only one who has
>     similar questions/concerns. Having your questions (and the
>     solutions) being
>     archived and available in search engines will save us time and be of
>     great help for all other students.
> 
>     # Introducing yourself
> 
>     To kick off your personal GSoC of code, we suggest to introduce
>     yourself and your project on the relevant mailing list, invite people
>     to provide feedback to your project, and communicate your planned
>     timeline as well as the media/location and interval you will use to
>     report your status.
> 
>     # Project description on llvm.org <http://llvm.org>
> 
> We can have a simple Google form for this task, students will fill
> relevant details and then responses will be added to a simple html file
> (llvm.org <http://llvm.org> 's format). I would be happy to help for
> this task.

I created an -- almost empty -- skeleton for this information (that is
not yet linked to from the LLVM website):

http://llvm.org/SummerOfCode/2016.html

It would be great if people could self-organize to improve this. If you
want to take the lead here, this is definitely great.

Best,
Tobias