GSoC: Guide

Please read the relevant official guides to ease your journey.

Contributors

For contributors interested in PCL:

• Please announce yourself and your interest in PCL at the discord channel
• Please have a draft proposal ready in the format of a git-repo/google doc to facilitate discussion
  • During the selection and submission phase, mentors often communicate with the candidates on the proposal merits/feasibility
  • Having a format where adding comments in-line with content is easy makes this communication quick and easy
  • Proposals not in a google doc or git will not be entertained
• Based on your interests, you will be assigned a small task to evaluate your skills.
  • You can also get started on a task of your choice taken from the list of good first issues
  • Please comment in the issue when you start working on it, so that multiple people aren't working on the same thing
  • Please work on one issue at a time

Mentors

For those interested in becoming mentors:

• Please note that mentoring and co-mentoring can take a lot of effort from your side (from 10 hours a week or 1 hour a week depending on the project, the student, the problems, etc.)
• Please announce yourself and participate in discussions at the discord channel
• Feel free to PM existing maintainers/mentors
• "Teaming up" as co-mentors is an option if you feel you will not be able to be the sole mentor on a project. For projects with existing mentor(s), it is upto them to accept/reject a co-mentor

Maintainers

TODO

Alphabetic list of current maintainers (2022):

• kunaltyagi
• larshg
• mvieth

Idea List

The past and present idea list is available here