llvm dev - Mar 2017 - [GSoC] Mentor qualification guidelines

Hi all,

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?

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.

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.

Cheers,

  Roel

[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-March/111126.html

[2] http://www.es.ele.tue.nl/~rjordans/5LIM0.php

> On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Roel Jordans via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 ;))

Best,

— 
Mehdi

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> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 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.
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

Cheers,
  Roel
> Best,
>
> —
> Mehdi
>