On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> Summer of Code is ramping up. Every year the common complaint is that >>>> not >>>> enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big >>>> reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective >>>> students is a link to the PEP index. >>>> >>>> So let's make this year different. >>>> >>>> Accepted students are paid a total of $4500 to work for roughly 30 hours >>>> a >>>> week, 12 weeks, on their proposed project. >>>> >>>> The challenge is finding project ideas for them that could reasonably >>>> occupy >>>> them for the entire Summer and which the results of their work can be >>>> demonstrated. They're being paid for specific projects so "Spend the >>>> Summer >>>> fixing bugs on the tracker" is a no-go, and Google has outlined that >>>> Summer >>>> of Code is about code, not documentation. >>>> >>>> I've seen and heard that a lot of work is still needed on >>>> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk both during the 3.1 release >>>> cycle, >>>> optimization possible all over the place. It'd be great if those of you >>>> working closely with this can shout out some ideas, brainstorm a bit. >>>> >>>> PSF was announced as one of the mentoring orgs today, this week before >>>> student applications are open is for students to talk to their >>>> prospective >>>> mentors and iron out the wrinkles in their plans, so there's not much >>>> time >>>> to get core project ideas together. >>> >>> How about porting PIL to 3.0? >>> There were many such requests on python-list and image-sig (including mine >>> :)) >>> >> >> I have ported it to the stage where its tests passes (which are far >> from covering all the code) and some of my own tests, there is a git >> repo on the image-sig that points to it. I wasn't really careful with >> some of the things (and I would even consider redoing some of them), >> but only one or two people got a copy of it so apparently people don't >> want/need it on python 3.0 just yet (not it alone at least). > > I did a "git clone git://gpolo.ath.cx/pil-py3k.git" but it failed: > > gpolo.ath.cx[0: 189.7.18.241]: errno=Connection timed out > fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out) > fetch-pack from 'git://gpolo.ath.cx/pil-py3k.git' failed. >
Thanks for noticing that, maybe more people had this same problem then, I will consider using github or some similar service (or maybe take the chance to bazaar, or mercurial, or svn, or..). > By the way the reason I think few people checked it out is that people > mostly are waiting for an "official" PIL release that is known to be > stable. Did you try making your port part of the "official" PIL > distribution? > I have talked with Fredrik, he said he would be running it on another test suite to check how much of it really works. But, no, I didn't really try pushing it to be integrated into the next PIL release and it also wouldn't be possible without distributing a py3k version only -- I didn't do the port with the ability to work in python 3.x and python 2.x but this can be arranged. > Cheers, > Daniel > > > -- > Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown Regards, -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
