[Paul Khuong <pvk@pv...>]

Good evening,

SBCL might (*might*) be part of Google's Summer of Code 2013. Christophe 
and I quickly came up with this <http://www.sbcl.org/gsoc2013/ideas/>; 
list of projects that seem doable over the course of two months, for 
someone who isn't yet acquainted with our code base. The list might seem 
long and daunting, but I'm hoping that any single one of the projects 
would prove to be an interesting, but solvable, challenge. I tried to 
make sure all the projects had tangible results quickly (after a couple 
days or two weeks of hacking at most), and that the goals could be 
extended in challenging and exciting directions as more milestones will 
be reached.

The reason we are doing this *now* is that it's part of the application 
process as a GSoC organisation. However, I believe the list is 
interesting independently of the Summer of Code. If you would like 
guidance on any of these projects (or others that aren't in the list), I 
think the team would be more than ready to help, via this mailing list 
or the irc channel [*]. If you want more details on a particular project 
(especially one that isn't described yet), I'll be happy to answer or 
redirect questions.

[*] I'll note that I'm personally much more strongly motivated to assist 
someone who's managed to build, test, and install SBCL from git, and has 
already submitted a patch that is in the process of being committed (or 
has been committed) whatever the patch… a small bugfix, improved 
documentation, a performance tweak, or even corrections for spelling and 
grammar mistakes in error messages or comments.

Paul Khuong