Questions about whether Wine will participate in GSoC in 2022.

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi Hui,

> Am 14.02.2022 um 20:40 schrieb Hui Xiang <zavier2001 at outlook.com>:
> 
> Dear Sir / Madam,
> 
> I would appreciate the opportunity to make contributions to this project if Wine will participate GSoC in 2022. Thank you for your time. It would give me great pleasure to hear back from you.

I don't think Wine will participate in GSoC this year. In 2019 and 2020 we did not get any useful applications and in 2021 Wine was not accepted to participate. This year nobody took a lead to submit another application to participate.

We did have many successful students in before ~2018 or so, but it has been increasingly difficult to find good projects that fit the GSoC scope. The easy tasks in Wine are done. Most work that Wine needs is usually difficult to fit in a specific timeframe - e.g. getting a specific application to run - because debugging has zero progress until you find what the problem is and the debugging task is done. Other long term goals are way beyond the scope of GSoC and unsuitable for beginners.

However, we did participate in ISCAS Open Source Promotion Plan last year (https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/help/en/) and might do so again this year. It is more flexible than GSoC, so it has some advantages. We also participated in Outreachy in the past. Also my employer, CodeWeavers, is hiring interns every now and then.

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