Hi there, I want to participate in this year's GSoC for Inferno with my own project idea. Is there anyone who can mentor such proposal and who I can discuss it with?
Repost of my proposal: >>Hello, >> >>I'm a student from Belarusian State University, I love Inferno and I really want to take part in this year's Google Summer of Code program! I'm going to work on my own project idea, but I don't mind anyone else taking it too. >> >>So, the project idea: "Java on dis": http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/java_on_dis/. >>The codebase of that project wasn't available online till this year, when I asked the community to look for it. Charles Forsyth found the old code, stripped the proprietary parts and put it on googlecode: http://code.google.com/p/inferno-j2d. >>That project was intended to convert bare java .class files to inferno's dis, so that they can be directly run on Inferno. So, the project idea I suggest consists of rewriting the old code from the old times (approximately year 1997) that was written long time ago with the old versions of limbo and java. >>Things to be done is to rewrite the whole project to support modern java (1.7 would be the best choice), to support the modern limbo and inferno (for example, the exception handling scheme has changed since then), to include java class library from the OpenJDK to inferno and to implement native parts of the library in limbo. >>The number of possibilities is enormous: >> - port huge number of java-based console tools to inferno >> - implement support for awt on tk and port even larger number of windowed apps to inferno >> - implement better styx fileservers and write libraries to support styx for lots of java-based programs >> - port java EE apps and make inferno the best server os ever :) >> - and lots of others. Thank you! -- Regards, Dmitry Kabak
