On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
On 3/3/11 6:10 PM, jasonw wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
On 3/3/11 3:48 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
Dear list,
Trass3r brought it up and I think it's a very good idea. D is lacking
some man power. The mentoring deadline is 11th of March. There are
important and interesting projects students may work on.
I'm writing this post seeking answers to
1. What's the "official" D stand on this matter?
2. Are there already students who have time and would like to join? What
are you interested in?
The first question is currently the more important one. The organization
administrator has to submit an application until the above deadline.
The purpose of the second question is to get some feedback whether it
would be worthwhile to submit an application. Because later on students
need to propose/join a project.
Jens
PS
The FAQs on http://code.google.com/soc/ is very helpful.
Thanks for this idea. I plan to submit an organization application. As
of now I'm unclear whether Digital Mars would be the best organization
to apply, as opposed to an unincorporated "d-programming-language.org"
entity. I'll discuss this with Walter. All, please chime in if you have
related experience.
We have a number of good projects to work on:
* XML library
* Networking library
* IDE
* Lexer/parser generator
* Containers
* Encryption/hashing
* Thrift bindings
What is Thrift? I read it's a Facebook technology which would benefit
your career, not D especially.
Not trying to be political, but as we
know Facebook and Google are competing enemies. Why do you think
Google would support some Facebook project financially?
I don't think they'd put things that way, but then I don't know.
Why not write D-Bus bindings? D-Bus is the de facto protocol on all
modern open source operating systems. About as important as COM or
CLR. COM is supported by D. Why not D-Bus? D-Bus is politically
neutral technology.
As long as we're just enumerating possible projects, sure.
Andrei