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jonahbenton04:02:25

@alexmiller: is there a list somewhere of projects that were undertaken and their final status?

jonahbenton04:02:33

from previous years?

maria06:02:13

@jonahbenton: You can get an overview of the projects on the official gsoc site: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/clojure.

mhjort14:02:31

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...

jonahbenton14:02:09

might any clojure west submitters- accepted or no- be potential candidates for projects/mentors?

dnolen14:02:56

@mhjort the categories are not set in stone, we just copied them over from last year

dnolen14:02:20

for more context

anmonteiro14:02:49

have all the projects from 2015 been accepted in the last edition?

dnolen15:02:08

@anmonteiro: no the project ideas are most about idea generation

dnolen15:02:22

for ClojureScript I usually weigh in on what I think needs work

dnolen15:02:31

but pretty anyone can step and be a mentor

dnolen15:02:40

and propose an idea they’d like to mentor as well

anmonteiro15:02:44

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?

dnolen15:02:17

@anmonteiro: sure you can definitely propose a bootstrapped project - the important thing is that projects need mentors

dnolen15:02:47

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

dnolen15:02:02

most of the things I propose are specifically projects that are too challenging without guidance

anmonteiro15:02:26

I'm looking at this from the perspective of a would-be participant

anmonteiro15:02:49

Mentoring sure seems nice, but I'd like to participate as a student before doing that

anmonteiro15:02:02

I understand

dnolen15:02:15

@anmonteiro: the ES6 class thing is also interesting - but I don’t really think it’s worth pursuing yet

dnolen15:02:40

it’s better if projects are driven by some real need or demand - and that just doesn’t pass muster yet

anmonteiro15:02:42

understood. As someone who's interested in applying, I'm interested in seeing Clojure up there

dnolen15:02:48

I added couple more things this morning

anmonteiro15:02:51

thus trying to come up with something

dnolen15:02:11

core.async, and core.match - both hard projects that have languished which would benefit from the focus of GSoC