[GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/3/11 5:06 PM, Jens Mueller wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We are honored to receive a fair amount of interest from students at
>> our GSoC 2011.
>>
>> One issue is that at least one student (who contacted me off-list)
>> couldn't find a project to work on that would best play into his
>> strengths. I think it's not too late to improve our GSoC ideas page
>> (http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas).
>>
>> Another issue is that we have competing proposals on identical or
>> overlapping projects. I am trying to solve one of these matters
>> privately, and I think it would be best if we could solve the others
>> in the community.
>>
>> I'm referring to Ishan's and Christian's proposals for containers.
>> Both proposals have pros and cons, and I predict it would be very
>> difficult to make a decision. Therefore, I'm trying to avoid that
>> "by design", i.e. by finding a solution that would keep both busy on
>> useful work that is in line with their capabilities.
>>
>> First, I suggest that anyone interested gives a thorough read to the
>> two proposals:
>>
>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ishanthilina/1
>
> That proposal is not made public. I.e. I cannot access it.

Thanks for letting me know. I made sure I logged out before trying it, 
but probably I was still logged in in gmail.

I think I need at this point to ask the students to allow me to make 
their proposals public.


Andrei