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.

> 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.

Seems like mentoring organizations are also expected to add a list of project proposals to their application: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#ideas and http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_role

So we'd have to collect project ideas as well.

Trass3r wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Seems like mentoring organizations are also expected to add a list of project proposals to their application: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#ideas and http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_role
> 
> So we'd have to collect project ideas as well.

Yes. The second question is intended for this. But I think the first
needs to be answered before that.
I believe there are enough ideas for projects (improve GC, std.stream,
std.socket, benchmarking, ...). Searching the bug tracker and the
archive will result in enough ideas, I suppose.

Jens

> I believe there are enough ideas for projects (improve GC, std.stream, std.socket, benchmarking, ...). Searching the bug tracker and the archive will result in enough ideas, I suppose.

I think one of the most important things would be a proper IDE with semantic analysis like Descent and builtin debugger support like VisualD. But I don't know if that can be done as a SoC project.

Am 03.03.2011 16:27, schrieb Trass3r:
>>  I believe there are enough ideas for projects (improve GC, std.stream,
>>  std.socket, benchmarking, ...). Searching the bug tracker and the
>>  archive will result in enough ideas, I suppose.
>
> I think one of the most important things would be a proper IDE with semantic analysis like Descent and builtin debugger support like VisualD. But I don't know if that can be done as a SoC project.

maybe QtCreator (http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools/)
(is it LGPL?) can be used as a fork base - so the ide will be multi-platform at start and even our unix/linux guys can work with it out of the box... i wouldn't start an ide from scratch - or use eclipse

On 2011-03-03 16:27, Trass3r wrote:
>> I believe there are enough ideas for projects (improve GC, std.stream,
>> std.socket, benchmarking, ...). Searching the bug tracker and the
>> archive will result in enough ideas, I suppose.
>
> I think one of the most important things would be a proper IDE with semantic analysis like Descent and builtin debugger support like VisualD. But I don't know if that can be done as a SoC project.

I would like that.

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/Jacob Carlborg

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

* ...


Andrei

about lexer/parser for ide i know geany a powerful IDE and it is very easy to enable autocompletion for D and any D library you need just generate tag file

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:17:26 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
> We have a number of good projects to work on:
>
> * XML library
>
> * Networking library
>
> * IDE
>
> * Lexer/parser generator
>
> * Containers
>
> * Encryption/hashing

I wrote some of these a few years back in D, and they were incorporated into Tango.  If I can find the original source I wrote, I will glady donate it to whomever wants to make it current/fit into the std library.. if that's what you're after.

Regan

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On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:00:09 -0000, Regan Heath <regan@netmail.co.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:17:26 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
>> We have a number of good projects to work on:
>>
...
>>
>> * Encryption/hashing
>
> I wrote some of these a few years back in D, and they were incorporated into Tango.  If I can find the original source I wrote, I will glady donate it to whomever wants to make it current/fit into the std library.. if that's what you're after.

Bad form to reply to myself, but I just realised I wasn't at all clear.  I mean I wrote some Hashing routines, not the rest of it... now trimmed above.

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