@alexmiller: is there a list somewhere of projects that were undertaken and their final status?
from previous years?
@jonahbenton: You can get an overview of the projects on the official gsoc site: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/clojure.
What does the tooling category means? I've been playing around on building a distributed load testing tool using Clojure. I think it's rather interesting topic to research & I've got some basic functionality already there: https://github.com/mhjort/clojider. However, it is not related to tooling on how to write Clojure better (IDE etc.). If that's the purpose with tooling category...
might any clojure west submitters- accepted or no- be potential candidates for projects/mentors?
@mhjort the categories are not set in stone, we just copied them over from last year
for more context
have all the projects from 2015 been accepted in the last edition?
@anmonteiro: no the project ideas are most about idea generation
for ClojureScript I usually weigh in on what I think needs work
but pretty anyone can step and be a mentor
and propose an idea they’d like to mentor as well
I'm not sure if these apply, but some ideas regarding ClojureScript would be: - anything that's currently missing in bootstrapped CLJS? I'm not sure of the status of it so this might not be a good candidate if all that's remaining is minor bug fixes - the other day in #C03S1L9DN someone mentioned support for ES6; is this something that is supposed to be pursued now?
@anmonteiro: sure you can definitely propose a bootstrapped project - the important thing is that projects need mentors
I probably would not mentor such a project myself since there’s enough interest floating around there to either produce a mentor - or for that project to evolve without further help from myself
most of the things I propose are specifically projects that are too challenging without guidance
I'm looking at this from the perspective of a would-be participant
Mentoring sure seems nice, but I'd like to participate as a student before doing that
I understand
@anmonteiro: the ES6 class thing is also interesting - but I don’t really think it’s worth pursuing yet
it’s better if projects are driven by some real need or demand - and that just doesn’t pass muster yet
understood. As someone who's interested in applying, I'm interested in seeing Clojure up there
I added couple more things this morning
thus trying to come up with something
core.async, and core.match - both hard projects that have languished which would benefit from the focus of GSoC