The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far):

http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas

Since we were rejected with, more or less, the same set of proposals last year it seems unlikely we would succeed this year with the same lineup.  So some new ideas (or some refreshing of the existing ideas) would be helpful.

Also if you see a project with yourself proposed as mentor, and you can no longer participate, then please let me know so I can remove your  project from the existing list.

If you are interested in mentoring a project, in addition to adding the project idea to the ideas page, you should add yourself to the mentors list at:

http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_mentors

If you have and idea for a new project it would be worthwhile to post it here so the community has the opportunity for input before it gets added to the ideas page.

Happy New Year to everyone.

Craig

On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far):
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas
>
> Since we were rejected with, more or less, the same set of proposals last year it seems unlikely we would succeed this year with the same lineup.  So some new ideas (or some refreshing of the existing ideas) would be helpful.
>
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>
> Happy New Year to everyone.
>
> Craig

Just bumping my own thread here.

Is there any interest is doing a GSOC application this year within the community? I don't mind doing the admin work, but having even a couple of solid new ideas for projects would improve the odds of a successful application.

On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 22:58:43 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far):
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas
>>
>> Since we were rejected with, more or less, the same set of proposals last year it seems unlikely we would succeed this year with the same lineup.  So some new ideas (or some refreshing of the existing ideas) would be helpful.
>>
> clip
>
>>
>> Happy New Year to everyone.
>>
>> Craig
>
> Just bumping my own thread here.
>
> Is there any interest is doing a GSOC application this year within the community? I don't mind doing the admin work, but having even a couple of solid new ideas for projects would improve the odds of a successful application.

What do you think about the idea of building higher-level bindings for Apple mobile + Android as a project, now that the compiler itself is at a useful stage of development?

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 22:28:40 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 22:58:43 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>> The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far):
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas
>>>
>
> What do you think about the idea of building higher-level bindings for Apple mobile + Android as a project, now that the compiler itself is at a useful stage of development?

I generally don't take a stand one way or the other on the projects, but rather let the community chime in, since in many cases (like this one) I am not terribly familiar with the problem space.

So any opinions on this project idea are welcomed.

Would you be willing to mentor such a project, or put together an outline (see the ideas page for some examples) of what the project would look like?  If the community likes the project idea, but you can't mentor it then perhaps we can find someone who would be.

On 06/01/16 11:28 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 22:58:43 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>> The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th.
>>> Which means we have about a month and a half to put something
>>> together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with
>>> one dropped so far):
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas
>>>
>>> Since we were rejected with, more or less, the same set of proposals
>>> last year it seems unlikely we would succeed this year with the same
>>> lineup.  So some new ideas (or some refreshing of the existing ideas)
>>> would be helpful.
>>>
>> clip
>>
>>>
>>> Happy New Year to everyone.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>
>> Just bumping my own thread here.
>>
>> Is there any interest is doing a GSOC application this year within the
>> community? I don't mind doing the admin work, but having even a couple
>> of solid new ideas for projects would improve the odds of a successful
>> application.
>
> What do you think about the idea of building higher-level bindings for
> Apple mobile + Android as a project, now that the compiler itself is at
> a useful stage of development?

For Android you really need an easy way to interface with JNI.
And that means another library.
There is a library that really isn't complete [0], is my fork.

I made the JNI bindings be derelict style.
If the demand is there I'll move them over to alphaPhobos with my updated DerelictUtil loader.

jvm.d is a bit cleaner and has comments.
It is also very magical in loading and will make things 'just work'.
I.e. it patches up stdout ext. on Windows.

I also did some serious clean up regarding to the abstractions around fields, classes and methods.

Craig Dillabaugh if you are interested in working on this with me, please let me know.

[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/djvm

On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 02:27:05 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 06/01/16 11:28 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 22:58:43 UTC, CraigDillabaugh
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>
> For Android you really need an easy way to interface with JNI.
> And that means another library.
> There is a library that really isn't complete [0], is my fork.
>
> I made the JNI bindings be derelict style.
> If the demand is there I'll move them over to alphaPhobos with my updated DerelictUtil loader.
>
> jvm.d is a bit cleaner and has comments.
> It is also very magical in loading and will make things 'just work'.
> I.e. it patches up stdout ext. on Windows.
>
> I also did some serious clean up regarding to the abstractions around fields, classes and methods.
>
> Craig Dillabaugh if you are interested in working on this with me, please let me know.
>
> [0] https://github.com/rikkimax/djvm

Do you mean me, or Laeeth Isharc?  The only Android/Apple device I have is a second hand iPhone that I've only ever used to take a few pictures and listen to the music left on it by the guy who gave it to me.  So I am likely not a good candidate to get involved in work on such bindings.  Heck, I don't even know what JNI is!

On 06/01/16 3:56 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 02:27:05 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 06/01/16 11:28 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 22:58:43 UTC, CraigDillabaugh
> clip
>>
>> For Android you really need an easy way to interface with JNI.
>> And that means another library.
>> There is a library that really isn't complete [0], is my fork.
>>
>> I made the JNI bindings be derelict style.
>> If the demand is there I'll move them over to alphaPhobos with my
>> updated DerelictUtil loader.
>>
>> jvm.d is a bit cleaner and has comments.
>> It is also very magical in loading and will make things 'just work'.
>> I.e. it patches up stdout ext. on Windows.
>>
>> I also did some serious clean up regarding to the abstractions around
>> fields, classes and methods.
>>
>> Craig Dillabaugh if you are interested in working on this with me,
>> please let me know.
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/rikkimax/djvm
>
> Do you mean me, or Laeeth Isharc?  The only Android/Apple device I have
> is a second hand iPhone that I've only ever used to take a few pictures
> and listen to the music left on it by the guy who gave it to me.  So I
> am likely not a good candidate to get involved in work on such
> bindings.  Heck, I don't even know what JNI is!

Okay Laeeth then, I sometimes mix people up :p

On 2016-01-05 23:28, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

> What do you think about the idea of building higher-level bindings for
> Apple mobile + Android as a project, now that the compiler itself is at
> a useful stage of development?

D has only basic support for interfacing with Objective-C, there's more in the works.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 13:28:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-01-05 23:28, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>
>> What do you think about the idea of building higher-level bindings for
>> Apple mobile + Android as a project, now that the compiler itself is at
>> a useful stage of development?
>
> D has only basic support for interfacing with Objective-C, there's more in the works.

I assume, based on my limited knowledge, that this would likely
be two separate projects then:

- bindings for Android
- bindings for Apple Mobile

Would a GSOC project be helpful in moving the Objective-C work forward.

On 2016-01-06 15:49, CraigDillabaugh wrote:

> Would a GSOC project be helpful in moving the Objective-C work forward.

I'm not sure if it's a good fit for a GSOC project. The implementation is basically done, it just needs to be upstreamed.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg