Re: clisp proposal for google summer of code

[Alin-Florin Rus-R. <net...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> * Alin-Florin Rus-Rebreanu <arg...@tz...> [2011-02-15 15:34:18 +0200]:
>>
>> First of all sorry if this it bothers you that I've sent this as a
>> private email.
>
> good news are welcome on any medium, although it is best to use a
> mailing list.
> clisp-devel is the best venue, please subscribe and reply there.
>
>> I would be very interested in working on GNU CLISP on the
>> multithreading interface in or outside GSoC if someone is willing to
>> mentor this.
>
> we will be delighted to!
> Vladimir is our MT expert; he wrote most of it.
> He should be answering you questions about CLISP MT design.
> I will do my best helping you with various lesser issues.
> Bruno is our "elder statesman".
>
>> I was a student in GSoC 2010 [1] as part of RTEMS and I implemented
>> the support for posix asynchronous input output for their system
>> (aio_*() and lio_listio()) so I have a pretty good understanding of
>> the multithreading stuff required for such a project. I presented 2
>> implementation one based on the glibc desing and one redesinged by me
>> which is almost fully integrated in RTEMS, it only lacks the
>> lio_listio LIO_NOWAIT stuff on which I'm working right now.
>>
>> I'm a 2nd year student in software engineering.
>>
>> Would this make me at least eligible to undertake this project? If so
>> I can start this week to poke around CLISP.
>
> sure, please go ahead!
>

Hello clisp-devel,

I see Sam forwarded my email to the development list, so there's not
to much to be said. I've read Vladimir's mail and managed to find the
relevant code, will try to dive in and come up with a mini-proposal
(or questions) by the end of this week (still have one last exam at
the university this semester).

Hopefully this will be the beginning of a great experience, thanks for
the support.

Regards,
-- 
Alin Rus