[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSOC Haskell Project

[Simon Marlow]

On 01/04/10 21:41, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> On 1 April 2010 18:58, Thomas Schilling<nominolo at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> On 1 Apr 2010, at 18:39, Mihai Maruseac wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, interesting. If I intend to give it a try, will there be a mentor
>>> for a GSOC project? Or should I start doing it alone?
>>
>> I'm sure Simon Marlow could mentor you except maybe if there are too many GHC-related GSoC projects.  I could do mentor this as well.  Or maybe Max.  I don't think finding a mentor will be a problem.
>
> I'm not the best person to mentor this project - I did bring it up in
> the hope that someone would find it tempting as a GSoC project, though
> :-). I think it's eminently practical to get this done in a summer (or
> less), and it would ameliorate one of Haskell's more embarrassing
> problems.

I'd be happy to mentor this project.

Cheers,
	Simon