Re: An idea to improve Bash Autocomplete mechanism

[Eric Blake]

On 03/22/2011 09:42 AM, Micah Cowan wrote:
> 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.

Actually, proposals for bash-completion might better be directed to the
bash-completion project:

http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/

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