[llvm-dev] [GSoC] Mentor qualification guidelines

Eric Christopher via llvm-dev
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:56:22 -0000

(Adding Anton here)

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:42 PM Roel Jordans via llvm-dev <
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> 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.
>
>
In general, I think I'd prefer that the official mentor be an llvm
contributor, however, any assistance that you give a GSoC student would be
very appreciated.

I've roped in Anton as (IIRC) the official organizer for GSoC and llvm.

-eric



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