Re: More summer of code ideas needed!

[c.]

On 19 Mar 2013, at 11:08, address@hidden wrote:

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> From: Michele Martone <address@hidden>
> To: Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
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> On address@hidden:21, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote:
>> Mentoring organisation applications for Google Summer of Code are now open!
>> 
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>> http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2013/03/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html
>> 
>> I have been cleaning up our ideas page in preparation for this:
>> 
>>    http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Low-Level_I.2FO
>> 
>> This has resulted in a number of ideas from past years being reworked
>> or removed. We need more ideas! It would be nice if we could get more
>> ideas for the Octave Forge packages.
>> 
>> So, what are your ideas? What else could students work on? Edit the
>> wiki or let me know and I can work it into the wiki.
>> ...
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> Well, I don't know whether this is a priority for Octave, but in case it
> makes sense, I would have no problem mentoring a project of completing /
> hardening the "sparsersb" plugin http://librsb.sourceforge.net/#a_sparsersb .
> 
> The plugin is almost ready and it needs solid testing / review (and
> this, by definition, cannot be done by me), so I don't know whether this
> fits well in a GSoC project !

I don't think only ideas that can be considered a priority should be included 
in the ideas list.
This one seems very interesting and I could also join in mentoring, so just go 
ahead and add it!

c.