[llvm-dev] [GSoC] Mentor qualification guidelines

Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:12:46 -0000

> On Mar 18, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> (Adding Anton here)
>
> 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:
> >>
> >> 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

We’ve had multiple official co-mentors in the past (just to clarify on the
possibility because you used the singular for mentor here).

—
Mehdi



> 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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