Project idea

Name: Instance Derreferencer for Pharo
Skill level: Intermediate
Possible Mentors:�
Name of the Student: Alejandro Infante

Description:
A problem with image based environment is, when you detect a memory leak is removing those objects from the system. This tool would provide a handy UI to inspect the current instances of the classes that we think they have a memory leak and, in case there are objects that are not being garbage collected, offer to the user a Derreference button. This is going to iterate over all the objects that have a reference to my object and remove that reference, finally enabling the Garbage Collector to get rid of the leak.



2014-02-14 5:08 GMT-08:00 Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com>:

Paolo Bonzini writes:

> Il 11/02/2014 10:42, Damien Cassou ha scritto:
>> Hi fellow Pharo hackers,
>>
>> � � � � ESUG, the European Smalltalk User Group, is applying for this
>> � � � � year's Google Summer of Code. �As you probably know, the Summer
>> � � � � of Code provides the opportunity to fund students to work during
>> � � � � the summer on Pharo. �Please reply to this
>> � � � � email (be sure to use "Reply to all") if you have ideas you
>> � � � � would like to propose.
>>
>> � � � � Please include a summary of the project and links to web pages
>> � � � � that can help prospective students to write their application.
>> � � � � Please also include the following information:
>>
>> � � � � - if applicable, other dialects that you would be willing to
>> � � � � � mentor this project for
>>
>> � � � � - the skill level
>>
>> � � � � - name of the mentor(s), email addresses, and possibly any IRC
>> � � � � � network/channel/nickname where they can be found.
>>
>> � � � � Thanks for contributing to ESUG's Summer of Code application!
>>
>
> Just a note that I haven't yet processed this thread, but our ideas page
> is already looking pretty well (and Pharo section is big) so I'll
> probably do it in the weekend or next Monday.

I can do it if you want.

Cheers,
Nico