I'm still keen on the idea of an easy Perl/Catalyst installer.
Something that might encompass local::lib, PAR and deployable on the
three or four main OSs windows (strawberry perl), OS X (10.4 and
10.5, using the system provided perl) and linux (maybe debian and red
hat based distros - again using the system perl). Also needs to work
in an environment with no root/Administrator access. And a nice
"double click" installer at the end would be good. I've rigged up an
appalling hack to do this in windows that needs finessed, but I
haven't looked at the other OSs.
Mentoring? Well, what I can offer is to point a student in the right
direction of who to talk to, not much else. I'm also very tolerant of
stupidity being a somewhat mentally challenged programmer myself.
On 23/02/2009, at 3:27 AM, Matt S Trout wrote:
So, the Summer of Code is fast approaching, so I need two things out
of
you wonderful people:
(1) if you think you might be able to mentor, yell - and outline
what areas
you think you'd prefer doing so in[0]
(2) suggestions for projects that *would appeal to a student to work
on.[1]
Note that your suggestion will carry a lot more weight if you're
willing to
do the doc/writeup and even more if you're willing to mentor it :)
We have a few people working on student recruitment, and I'll post
later
about how anybody else who wants to work that side of things can
help out.
For now, we need to make a list of mentors and projects so we can
get that
sent out and set up - if we don't get slots, nothing else matters
sadly.
Excessive bikeshedding will result in me resetting the thread with a
new
summary email and killfiling the old one; we don't have time for it,
sorry.
[0] note that you shouldn't worry too much about expertise here - I
intend
for a number of us to provide backup services to mentors in terms of
technical knowledge, the key requirements here are interest and time
[1] I'm not interested in your personal wishlist of features here,
mine's
probably at least as long as yours and I'm not inflicting it on the
list
just now so please show the same courtesy :)
--
Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class
project?
Technical Director http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/
Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment
platform?
http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/
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