[llvm-dev] [GSoC] Mentor qualification guidelines

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On Mar 18, 2017, at 5:41 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 5:12 PM Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com <mailto:mehdi.amini at apple.com>> wrote:
>> On Mar 18, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com <mailto:echristo at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> (Adding Anton here)
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>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:42 PM Roel Jordans via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>> On 17-03-17 22:34, Mehdi Amini wrote:
>> >> On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Roel Jordans via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
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>> >> Hi all,
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>> >> I have a question related to GSoC.  One of my students submitted an idea [1] for a GSoC project and I would be interested in (co-)mentoring this project but I'm unsure of the qualification requirements for acting as a mentor.  Is there anyone that can clarify the requirements here?
>> > We don’t have any explicit requirement.
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>> >> I have been working with LLVM for several years now but mostly on projects outside of the main LLVM repository.  At our university we are currently maintaining two backends for our own custom architectures and last year we started a new compiler course based on LLVM [2] where we have several assignments with the LLVM internals.
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>> >> I think that I'm reasonably familiar with LLVM to help guide this project but I'm not sure what the community involvement requirements are for example.  I also remember some posts from last year where there were other people asking similar questions so I expect that further clarification of this may help in general as well.
>> > I would (personally) be happy for you to co-mentor any student, I feel we’d need someone with a track of contributions in LLVM  to co-mentor with you though.
>> > (this is just my personal opinion and it’s not worth more anyone else’s ;))
>> Thanks for your answer.  That matches quite well with my expectation, I
>> would also appreciate it if a more experienced LLVM contributor would
>> co-mentor with me.  I expect that that will benefit the project quite a bit.
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>> In general, I think I'd prefer that the official mentor
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> We’ve had multiple official co-mentors in the past (just to clarify on the possibility because you used the singular for mentor here).
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> I did, but I was thinking more of the filling out the evaluation portion rather than any sort of "helping with llvm" capacity.
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> "If there are multiple mentors, only one mentor will complete the evaluation (decide amongst yourselves who that will be beforehand).”

Oh Ok, makes sense to me :)

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Mehdi


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