Re: [GSoC'14] Proposal: Improve annotation and aggregation

[Russell Keith-Magee]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Shamim Hasnath <sha...@hasnath.net> wrote:

Hello,
I'm Shamim Hasnath, 3rd year student, studying CSE in Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh. Besides my studies I worked for over a year as a part time Django developer in a software company located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I developed several Django & GAE apps there.

Here's my blog articles on django: http://www.hasnath.net/blog/category/django 

I'd like to work on Improve annotation and aggregation. I'm familiar with MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases. I've checked all the tickets regarding this.

I have always wanted to contribute to Django project. GSoC would be a great opportunity for me.

Hi Shamim,

If you want to participate in the GSoC with Django, you'll need to write a project proposal. This is a *lot* more work than saying "I'd like to work on annotation". Here's a link to an example proposal from last year that was successful:

https://gist.github.com/chrismedrela/82cbda8d2a78a280a129

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2014

[Russell Keith-Magee]

My apologies - I accidentally hit send mid reply.

You've got until Friday to get this proposal written and submitted to Google, so if you're expecting to get feedback from the community and integrate that feedback into your proposal, you're going to need to get writing. Getting your proposal reviewed by the community isn't mandatory, but all the successful proposals in past years have been through at least one community review - I'd be very surprised if you can write an acceptable proposal on your first attempt.

 

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

[anubhav joshi]

As far as I am aware already the tasks that are listed out in the GSoC idea page have been completed by someone and there is a PR for that purpose also.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/2184