From: Eric Wong Date: 2015-03-10T09:44:47+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:68483] Re: Looking for MRI projects for Ruby Google Summer of Code 2015 SASADA Koichi wrote: > [core/just idea] improve coverage tool Related: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9508 (method / branch coverage changes from Sam Rawlins) > [lib] Add Queue features > > Queue is a key feature to communicate between threads. > > However, there are more space to improve. > > (1) wait for multiple Queues That'd probably boil down to IO.select/epoll/kqueue on a pipe or eventfd wrapped object. > Maybe implementation is not so difficult. However, considering API is > difficult. At first, they need to survey other langauges. Maybe SOCK_SEQPACKET is more appropriate (also cross-language compatible), but not very common outside Linux and recent FreeBSD. > [lib] Consider non-blocking API > > Python 3.4 introduce asyncio suport > . > Consider how to introduce it in Ruby way. One small, platform-independent step is to reduce exceptions in *_nonblock further. I've had https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10532 open for few months with no word from matz. About Summer-of-Code in general: I am not going to give special treatment to students registered in any program. That would be discriminating against everyone else who is not or cannot be registered. Who/what someone is not something I am willing to care about. As long as a topic is interesting, well-written and something I feel knowledgeable in, I will try to help people on ruby-core regardless of who or what they are. It doesn't matter if they're a student, hobbyist, professional, mass murderer, artificial intelligence, or a dog. I can read plain text, that is the lowest common denominator for communication and all I can competently deal with. I am not willing to sign up to websites, run any JavaScript, or view images/video.