On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 18:38:43 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello everyone,
Following my call for GSoC would-be mentors we got exactly one
offer, from Russell Winder. Thanks! (There has been no response
whatsoever on the czardom position.)
Needless to say, if we don't have a good pool of mentors we'll
be forced to retract our GSoC submission.
Walter and I are are also in crunch mode reviewing DConf
submissions (subject of an upcoming post). I am overdue on
reviewing a new book proposal on D literally today. All of this
takes away from other high scrutiny work that we are, rightly
or wrongly, perceived as the bottleneck of.
"Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die," the
saying goes. There has been lively debate recently in this
forum about how our community can organize itself better,
during which there was no shortage of advice regarding things
that should be done. Now here we are - laid as bare as it gets
in front of us all is an opportunity for each and every one of
us to make a large and positive impact on the future of D.
There's no better opportunity to act on an obviously good
chance to push the D language further.
I'll make tonight an executive decision about our participation
to GSoC this year. A strong GSoC leader would be fantastic. At
the very minimum we need a handful of mentors. Your turn.
Andrei
I would love to help someone with their project, but I don't
really know how the mentoring system works. If expertise in any
of the suggested GSoC ideas are required, then it's quite
difficult to volunteer.
Of the ones listed though, I do feel I could support a std.i18n
project to some degree.
