[Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects? (original) (raw)

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 10:06:34 CEST 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:

I would vote for allowing student work on community infrastructure tasks. Tracker, Wiki, Web site management tools are all outdated and everybody who cares agrees that they've seen a better tools. As long as it's programming, it's allowed by Google.  So let's find a good student or two, and outline a few good projects! I do worry that that kind of work is difficult to evaluate, and requires really great communication on both sides...

First we need to compile a list of things to do into one big list. I see the major problem that there is no "dashboard" that gives an overview of available/supported community services and their status. Services that are parts of python.org and those that linked and often used, but not parts.

Status of service is the amount of opened/languishing bugs/enhancements. Some services don't have trackers at all. For example, infrastructure proposals, web site patches is nowhere to track.

Service on a dashboard should be accompanied by contact points info.

Service should list location of primary repository and mirrors.

Feature creep:

After dashboard is ready, it would be nice to unify all Services:

  1. Add OpenID/Google support
  2. Add searchable Google Groups mirrors
  3. Add Google search form to Mailman web interface for hosted groups
  4. Register services search with Google (see attach)

Then we need to find a contact point - a person who could be most helpful for each service and help other students with other specific tasks. I am not such person for neither service, but I am interested to help push progress forward.

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