Re: An idea to improve Bash Autocomplete mechanism

[Micah Cowan]

On 03/20/2011 12:02 PM, amir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I am a graduate student and I believe I am eligible to participate in
> GSoC.
> 
>   I have an idea to extend/improve the bash TAB completion. I cannot
> find Bash in the package list of GNU
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2011.html). I wonder if
> I can submit a proposal for my idea?

It is pretty much always fine to submit proposals for ideas that the
organization didn't think of. The ideas list is just meant to be a list
of possibilities, not the exhaustive list of things you can submit
proposals for.

That said, if a project isn't represented on the ideas page, then no one
knows yet whether they have anyone who would make a suitable mentor (and
be willing to do so).

So, feel free to submit any proposal you want; but in the meantime it
would be a very good idea to contact the Bash community (via the mailing
list http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash), to explain your
proposal idea, find out whether the administrator is interested in the
project, and whether anyone knowledgeable about bash's source code would
be willing to mentor such a project.

-- 
Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/