1st Call for Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:11:39 -0400, Craig Dillabaugh  
<craig.dillabaugh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 14:22:02 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 May 2014 14:33:15 -0400, Craig Dillabaugh  
>> <craig.dillabaugh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 10:19:03 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 02:44:00 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
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>>> Steven Schveighoffer - if you are reading, would you be interested in  
>>> mentoring a std.stream replacement project?
>>
>> I'm working on the replacement itself :)
>>
>> -Steve
>
> So you are not interested in getting some poor student to do all the  
> grunt work for you ... or are you planning on being done before 2015 :o)

The design is not finished. I don't want a student to do work that is  
going to get thrown away, or completely refactored.

I can certainly see something being possible once the design is finished  
and rudimentary implementation is there. I definitely could see an xml  
replacement that uses the new streams being a project.

But I didn't see the GSOC thing being a "grunt work" type of thing.  
Wouldn't such a student be interested in his/her own project rather than  
filling out someone else's? I think we should look at something like  
Dmitry's regex replacement as a model for the type of projects we would  
like.

In the case where someone wanted to do a project on i/o improvements or  
container improvements, I would certainly be willing to mentor.

-Steve