From: tsuraan@...
Date: 2006-04-19T04:39:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code update

> In the next day or two I'm going to set up a roadmap for Ruby
> Central's Summer of Code involvement.  Basically, we're going to need
> mentors and project ideas, to start with -- and it looks like we're
> getting them!  I will definitely go back and glean everything and
> everyone who has expressed interest on this list, and start to collect
> them.

One project I'd recommend, in case any more ideas are needed, is a 
python-grade email parsing library.  At work, we do a lot of work with 
email handling, so I just can't get away from python.  At a bare 
minimum, an email parsing library should be able to decode all the 
email encodings (base64, quoted-printable, etc), and convert the 
encoded header information (the way that unicode headers are converted 
into ascii) into their native formats.  Other goodies, such as being 
able to read an mmap'd email rather than a string would be really nice 
:)