Questions about whether Wine will participate in GSoC in 2022.

[Henri Verbeet]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 11:11, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't necessarily say that. It's true that Wine inherently has
some additional complications compared to some other projects, but
that was true 10 years ago as well. Clearly some modules are more
mature now than they were in the past, but there are also plenty of
new ones. I would say the following though:

  - Typical students these days seem more interested in building web
applications or mobile phone applications than some of the more
traditional things Wine is concerned with like font rendering or
building compilers and parsers.

  - There is considerable divergence between the interests of Google
and those of the Free Software community.