[scala-ide-dev] [GSOC] Self-introduction and my GSOC project "Advanced Semantic Tools for SDT"

[Jin Mingjian]

Hi, Scala-IDE community and everyone in the community: 

My name is Jin Mingjian, one Phd candidate from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. One my project called "Advanced Semantic Tools for the Scala IDE for Eclipse", which stems from the project idea#11 listed in [1], has been accepted by the community and GSOC[2]. And Miles Sabin is the official mentor of this project.(However, all of you in the community are my mentor as well^_^) I am an old man in Eclipse community but a little new in Scala. I think I can contribute to Scala IDE in many aspects from now.

Three basic features of this project, which are aslo listed in the idea#11, has been planned as follows:

1. A mechanism for showing inferred type hovers for expressions 

2. Visual indicators of the application of implicit conversions and the provision of implicit parameters.  

3. A mechanism for transiently expanding inferred types and implicit conversion and parameters inline in source text. 

For 1, there is a basic support in current SDT. For 3, it seemly need to be refined. I will pick up the 2rd feature firstly. I have formed some ideas about this feature in my brain. According to the suggestion of Miles, I will post it to our group recently. I think the plan of other two features will be out in next month(before the timeline of beginning coding)(and I will post them in our group to collect suggestions as well). 

Any suggestions, comments, criticisms and requests are welcome:)

Thanks for Miles and Scala community for this chance. I will stick around the Scala and Eclipse community always.

Best regards,

Jin Mingjian

[1] www.scala-lang.org/gsoc2010

[2] http://code.google.com/soc

[Miles Sabin]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jin Mingjian <jin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My name is Jin Mingjian, one Phd candidate from the Institute of Electrical
> Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. One my project called "Advanced
> Semantic Tools for the Scala IDE for Eclipse", which stems from the project
> idea#11 listed in [1], has been accepted by the community and GSOC[2]. And
> Miles Sabin is the official mentor of this project.(However, all of you in
> the community are my mentor as well^_^) I am an old man in Eclipse community
> but a little new in Scala. I think I can contribute to Scala IDE in many
> aspects from now.

Congratulations on having your project accepted for GSoC! I'm very
much looking forward to working with you on this :-)

Cheers,


Miles

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[Rüdiger Keller]

Hello Jin Mingjian,

it's great to hear that you will support the Scala Eclipse plugin. I
read your blog post concerning this and I am really excited by what
you wrote. Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Ruediger


2010/4/27 Jin Mingjian <jin...@gmail.com>:

[Mohamed Bana]

Good luck!  When do you anticipate you'll have a prototype up, i.e., when is the deadline?

What blog post?

I think this announcement should also be posted on the official Scala list.  Were any more Scala proposals accepted?

—Mohamed

[Jin Mingjian]

oh, hi, everyone, I go to sleep when I post this message:) Miles, you do the great job! It is my honor to work with you and our Scala IDE team!

Hi, Mohamed, I don't know where the official announcement as well. I guess Scala team will announce the results in near days. The reason I know this result is I receive the notification email from the GSOC. That blog post is just a entry post to show some of my thoughts to current SDT(thanks for Ruediger's encouragement^_^). You can find it here[1]. 

I will report to the community regularly. And if I make something wrong or meet some problems, please point out and help me:) thanks:)

best regards,

Jin Mingjian

[1]  jmj-eclipse.blogspot.com/2010/04/align-scala-development-tools-with.html

2010/4/28 Mohamed Bana <moh...@bana.org.uk>

[Donna Malayeri]

> I think this announcement should also be posted on the official Scala list.
> Were any more Scala proposals accepted?

Yes, I just posted on the main Scala list. See http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6178.

Donna