[Nouveau] [Piglit] X.Org GSoC 2019 - Student Application Period

[Karol Herbst]

well generally I would be available for all the nouveau projects,
although I am lacking proper knowledge for a few of those like video
acceleration. But I am sure I would be able to dig into stuff enough
before the projects starts.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:29 PM Roy Spliet <nouveau at spliet.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for reaching out on the matter Ilia.
> I am not to be relied on. If you're lucky, I might be able to take some
> questions about past work, but cannot make a solid time commitment that
> warrants being a mentor.
> Of course, the mentor does not necessarily have to have the deepest
> understanding of the subject matter. *At the end of the GSOC* a good
> student should be trusted with having more knowledge on the specific
> topic than the mentor. That being said, DVFS is fidgetty and the outcome
> is binary (it either works or crashes your machine spectacularly), so
> it's difficult to get someone started and keep 'em motivated if as a
> mentor you don't have experience on the topic. As such, I'd consider it
> a high risk topic to promote unless one of the relative veteran
> developers (Ben, Martin, Karol, or Lyude in the case of clock/power
> gating) is keen to mentor.
>
> Roy
>
>
> On 26/03/2019 15:07, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:56 AM Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue 2019-03-26 @ 10:40:49 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> >>> Just looked over the projects... they all seem valid
> >>
> >> Thank you for taking the time to have a look and provide feedback!
> >>
> >>> but are there
> >>> people who could realistically mentor a GSoC student for these? IMHO
> >>> unless mentors can be identified, these should all be archived.
> >>
> >> Attracting mentors is probably the hardest part of running GSoC. Perhaps if a
> >> student shows interest in a given topic, someone might be inspired to sign up
> >> as a mentor?
> >>
> >> Keeping the list of ideas up-to-date and finding mentors are the two things
> >> I'm hoping to make a noticeable improvement to this year. It also ties in
> >> strongly with:
> >>
> >>          https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/76
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>          Trevor
> >
> > BTW - I meant my comment to only apply to nouveau-related projects.
> > Both in terms of validity, as well as mentorship-unavailability.
> >
> > It sucks for a student to come in, think that some project is
> > available to work on, only to find that there's no one who can mentor
> > them. I don't know how often that happens, but I bet it's "sometimes".
> > Better to get them to dedicate themselves to projects that do have
> > mentors available.
> >
> > [And yeah, I know these are meant as "ideas", but I think in practice
> > it's "here's a list of projects for you to select from". Only a very
> > rare student will come up with their own idea.]
> >
> >    -ilia
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