Mono-D at GSoC - Mentor needed

[alex]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 18:27:40 UTC, alex wrote:
> 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!

Oops, small mistake happened - didn't know that he was called 
"LightBender"