DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 02:34:53 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> Unfortunately we won't participate in GSoC this year. The 
> decision was not surprising - our application has been rejected.
>
> Sadly there are lots of things we could have done better. Our 
> application has been a low-priority side job for Walter and 
> myself and as such its quality has suffered greatly.
>
> GSoC applications are a great example of things where one or 
> more community members can have a large impact on D's well 
> being by offloading a parallelizable work from the two of us.
>
> Please consider taking a leadership role for GSoC 2015.
>
>
> Andrei

How much time did you spend on the application this year?  How 
much time do you think would be needed to put together a good 
quality proposal?