Re: [need mentor] GSoC Proposal: Enhancement to Debian's BLAS/LAPACK Ecosys
Hi Lumin,
since I need to admit that I have no idea about BLAS/LAPACK and I'm just
a happy user of these packages as dependencies of several of my own
packages, I'm volunteering to co-mentor this project since I regard it
really important and would love to see it happen. A real mentor who can
give some advise and set directions (which I really can not!) would be
very welcome.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 03:15:13PM +0000, Mo Zhou wrote:
> Hi science team,
>
> I'm proposing the following project for GSoC 2020:
> "Enhancement to Debian's BLAS/LAPACK Ecosys"
> To some extent this is basically making some portion of my
> todo-list well-funded by Google :-)
>
> I cannot "mentor" myself as I'm the participating student...
> So I think I need a GSoC mentor at this point.
> Please tell me if you are willing to be the mentor for this proposed project.
>
> Content of Proposal
> -------------------
>
> 1. write down the formal (science team) policies about BLAS/LAPACK
> linkage and add corresponding lintian warnings. (Partially
> discussed on -devel before.)
> 2. help BLAS/LAPACK reverse dependencies get rid of the
> libcblas.so linkage. (confirmed in the previous MBF)
> 3. remove libcblas.so from src:atlas (confirmed by Sébastien)
> 4. integrate libflame into our ecosys (preliminary packaging
> already available on salsa. may need to work with upstream
> and solve some remaining problems. when the package is ready
> for debian, I'll also port it to Gentoo)
> 5. a fine documentation about debian's BLAS/LAPACK ecosys
> (some of you have already seen a private copy of this)
>
> Optional targets (if there will be enough time for me)
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1. update src:openblas and src:suitesparse and remove the vendored
> openblas/suitesparse from src:julia.
> 2. patch src:lapack and add 64bit-indexing support for CBLAS.
>
> Background/Who am I
> -------------------
>
> I'm confident about acceptance ... as long as Debian will not fall out
> from the hosting organization list this year...
>
> 1. I'm currently a master student.
> 2. During GSoC2019, I introduced a blas/lapack runtime switch mechanism
> to Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Blas-lapack-switch)
> which is to some extent similar to our update-alternatives.
> 3. currently I co-maintain a portion of blas/lapack packages for
> both Gentoo and Debian.
> 4. I have sufficient skill set (as a DD) to finish the proposal
> (that has been dragged for long time due to my slacking off)
>
>
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