Mono-D at GSoC - Mentor needed

[alex]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 17:25:06 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the offer!

'Unfortunately' there already is one who wants to be a mentor -
but anyway: Thanks for being willed to do this!