Compound Thinking

Google Summer of Code

First I want to congratulate Chris Arent and Chris Perkens who put a lot of work into the Google Summer of Code application for TurboGears. The GSoC has been very good for python, and good for TurboGears in the past, and it’s really nice to take this to the next step and become a GSoC mentoring organization this year.

With that said, there is one project being sponsored by the TG team which I want to highlight because I really want to see get picked up by talented and motivated student. The first would be the Genshi speedup stuff, this is going to require some python profiling and optimization skills (obviously with lots of mentor help) and will likely require some C coding as well. But it will be a huge benift not just to TurboGears, but also to Trac, and all kinds of other Python projects which want to produce XML output for whatever reason. Recent benchmarks have shown that TG2 is very fast when you don’t use genshi match templates — so making this stuff faster will have a big performance impact.

So if you’re a student, and interested in doing something challenging, interesting, and useful, please take a look at this, and the rest of our GSoC ideas on the wiki — and feel free to suggest new things on the mailing list.