Mono-D at GSoC - Mentor needed

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:18:01 -0700, alex <info at alexanderbothe.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> It may sounds a bit annoying because I already was asking everywhere in  
> the IRC channels but still had no success -
>
> Is there anyone who wants to be my GSoC mentor for the Mono-D project?
>
> In the case you don't know what Mono-D is all about:
> It's about creating a D language binding for MonoDevelop.  
> (http://monodevelop.com/Screenshots )
>
> There are couple of things that are already implemented - like a  
> relatively nice but fast code completion, build support, small  
> refactoring operations like they can be used in every modern IDE and few  
> other things which will make application development with D a lot easier  
> - especially for D newbies.
> (Debugging is also available via gdb on Linux systems - so yeah, why  
> not? :))
>
> The main road map for this summer of code is available under
> https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/blob/master/MonoDevelop.DBinding/Remaining%20features.txt
> - Especially things like the evaluation of constant expressions and CTFE  
> made e.g. a pre-compile-time view of mixin expressions possible! - This  
> would be more than nice, I guess!
>
> So if you want to support D (and perhaps me, too ;)) - be a mentor for  
> GSoC to let D roll a bit more!
>
> Further project info @ http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com
> For contact, you can speak to me in the #d and #d.mono-d channel on  
> freenode - I'm called 'alex|D-Guy' there

I might be up for this. Can anybody fill me in on what is involved in  
being a mentor? I've never done it before, but I have some project  
management experience and I am really interested in seeing improved IDE  
integrations for D.

-- 
Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/