Mono-D at GSoC - Mentor needed

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 11:42:46 PDT 2012


On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:40:49 -0700, alex <info at alexanderbothe.com> wrote:

> 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"
>

  I really should put that in my sig...

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


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