[MonoDevelop] Online Templates

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Sanjoy Das
<sanjoy at playingwithpointers.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was actually thinking of working on this project for my GSoC. I
> already have a rough draft of my proposal which I've attached. Would be
> great if you could take some time out and give me a suggestion or two.
> Did not paste it inline because all the line breaks were screwing up.

I really like the idea, and the proposal in its current state is good.
I just have a few comments:

* It might be hard to sell the idea to some other Mono mentors (who
don't use MD), so if you have other ideas, you should probably submit
multiple proposals.
* I'd suggest ASP.NET MVC instead of Django, as it would allow sharing
client/server code, and also would help to dogfood the Mono stack. I
know it can't run on App Engine, but we should be able to host it on
monodevelop.com.
* I'm not sure of the value of SVN template repositories if there's a
web service, but instead of SharpSVN I'd suggest using MD's existing
SVN providers, which work cross-platform. In fact, you could probably
use the VCS abstractions directly. However, I'd move this to the
future work section, and instead make sure the core features are
polished.
* What are the mid-term deliverables?

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com