Earlier this month, I applied to the Mono Project (and the University of Washington, and Ubuntu, and Debian, and The Perl Foundation) requesting a mentor to get Perl6 hosted on the DLR.<\/p>\n
Last Tuesday, Miguel<\/a> contacted me and asked that I chat with Michael Hutchinson<\/a> about possibly taking up a different project. It seems that the group did not have any mentors who felt comfortable mentoring the Perl6 project. After a bit of consideration, I agreed to modify my application and take up a project to revive the regular expression compiler<\/a> from 2.2.<\/p>\n Today, the project was officially accepted, and I met with my mentor for the first time (hi Rodrigo<\/a>!).<\/p>\n I will also be working with Matthew Wilson (aka @diakopter<\/a>), since he has purportedly implemented a number of regex-to-IL compilers ;) He also offered to mentor me if The Perl Foundation<\/a> had accepted my application, and since he has already implemented a perl6 compiler<\/a> in javascript, I have been looking forward to poking some code with him.<\/p>\n Although the GSoC doesn’t officially get started until 5\/24, I’m making a git-svn checkout now. I’ve always committed the code directly to svn, but I’ve enjoyed working with git, and it seems about time to start contributing via git-svn. It will be easier to have local branches this way, too.<\/p>\n Anyway, I’m looking forward to it ;)<\/p>\n\n