We’re probably going to skip GSoC this year. We’re focusing on getting the
SDL 1.3 release out.
That said, any student who wants to help out independently of the GSoC
program, please send me e-mail! We can use motivated, talented help! 
See ya,–
-Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC
Hey Sam, it’s nice that this year goal is to have the new version of
sdl release, but it’s a pity not to take advantage of GSoC man power
How about having minor changes or less projects than past years to be
merged in sdl 1.3.1?
VittorioOn Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Sam Lantinga wrote:
We’re probably going to skip GSoC this year.? We’re focusing on getting the
SDL 1.3 release out.That said, any student who wants to help out independently of the GSoC
program, please send me e-mail!? We can use motivated, talented help!See ya,
? ? -Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC
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Hey Sam, it’s nice that this year goal is to have the new version of
sdl release, but it’s a pity not to take advantage of GSoC man power
If I had to guess, I’d say that based on the perspective achieved by
having had GSoC participants working with SDL at least twice in the
past, Sam’s able to consider the effort/reward ratio and decide that
it’s not high enough to make it worth it this year when there are other
important goals to be focusing on.
Just a guess, though.>----- Original Message ----
From: Vittorio G. <vitto.giova at yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: [SDL] Google Summer of Code 2011
The issue is not that Sam doesn’t think anything good will come from GSoC.
The issue is that GSoC in the past has been used for implementing new functionality. SDL 1.3 is pretty much complete, it needs bugfixes and a few simpler things off the wishlist, and that’s about it. Those aren’t the types of things that GSoC would be useful for.------------------------
EM3 Nathaniel Fries, U.S. Navy
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“iso-8859-1”The issue is not that Sam doesn’t think anything good will come from GSoC.
The issue is that GSoC in the past has been used for implementing new
functionality. SDL 1.3 is pretty much complete, it needs bugfixes and a few
simpler things off the wishlist, and that’s about it. Those aren’t the types of
things that GSoC would be useful for.
In the “Drop Software Renderer” thread I suggested the possibility of
modifying SDL 1.2 to use SDL 1.3 as a backend. Would that work for
them, or would the scope be too big (I haven’t looked at writing a
backend, so I really don’t know)?> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:37:32 -0800
From: “Nathaniel J Fries”
To: sdl at lists.libsdl.org
Subject: Re: [SDL] Google Summer of Code 2011
Sam would like to drop SDL 1.2 altogether.
There’s plenty of good reasons to do it. Anything new should really be using SDL 1.3.------------------------
EM3 Nathaniel Fries, U.S. Navy