Application for Google Summer of Code

[Kohsuke Kawaguchi]

During FOSDEM, I was approach by Martin Skurla (CC-ed on this e-mail), a
student, who said he'd love to see us apply for Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) as a mentoring organization, because he wants to work with us in
the program. He was specifically interested in working on the NetBeans
integration.

I thought this was a great idea. At the time I suggested that one
project idea is to enable NetBeans to see the static code analysis
results produced on the server, but later he found out that that's
already on the roadmap for NetBeans 7.2.

So I'm trying to solicit ideas for the possible project ideas for GSoC.
I'd like to come up with some ideas for Martin around NetBeans
integration, but any other ideas are also welcome.

As a rule of thumb, I believe GSoC projects need to be:

- moderately scoped so that someone can achieve it in a limited time
frame.

- ideally shouldn't require deep understanding of the existing stuff.

- open-ended problem that fosters creativity.

As for NetBeans, one possibility is the "pre-tested commit" feature
based on diff files --- we'll have NetBeans send us diff, then when we
build a job, we'd apply it on the source tree after checkout. It's got
some work on NB side and some work on Jenkins side, a nice mix.

For broader project ideas, I think some of the UI work we discussed in
FOSDEM would fit in nicely. Other ideas include:

- Gradle integration, similar to what we have for Ivy/Maven.
Probe what Gradle is doing, and auto archive stuff.
- Plugin development with Python via Jython
- Ruby plugin work. Code generators, wrappers, etc.
- Code generators for Java (like "jpi generate builder FooBuilder")

[1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB71#Hudson
--
Kohsuke Kawaguchi http://kohsuke.org/

[Crazy Java]

Hi Jenkins guys,


yes, I am interesting in contributing in Jenkins project ideally through GSoC 2012.

The Pre-tested commit looks very interesting. Also the code generator for java looks cool. Kohsuke, can you please be more specific what the code generator should do, or give me some direction where it should/could go?


Thanks,
Martin

2012/2/14 Kohsuke Kawaguchi <k...@kohsuke.org>

[Christopher Orr]

Hi all,

"Open source projects and organisations have until Friday, 9 March at
23:00 GMT to apply to mentor students as part of this year's Google
Summer of Code (GSoC) event."

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-Summer-of-Code-2012-mentoring-application-deadline-announced-1444111.html

FAQ:
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#mentoring_apply

Regards,
Chris

[R. Tyler Croy]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Christopher Orr wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> "Open source projects and organisations have until Friday, 9 March
> at 23:00 GMT to apply to mentor students as part of this year's
> Google Summer of Code (GSoC) event."
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-Summer-of-Code-2012-mentoring-application-deadline-announced-1444111.html
>
> FAQ:
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#mentoring_apply

I've added a meeting agenda item for our next meeting which is right before the
deadline (7th).

If there are core or plugin developers willing to mentor a student, please
speak up!

- R. Tyler Croy
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rty...@jabber.org

[Sameera Bandara]

Hi all. I'm Sameera Bandara, undergraduate of Computer Science and
Engineering Department, University of Moratuwa. I have previous
experience in working with Jenkins during my internship. It would be a
great pleasure to see Jenkins at the GSOC 2012 and if so I definitely
like to participate.

All the best

Regards,
Sameera Bandara

[Dirk Haun]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <k...@kohsuke.org> wrote:

> During FOSDEM, I was approach by Martin Skurla (CC-ed on this e-mail), a
> student, who said he'd love to see us apply for Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
> as a mentoring organization

FWIW, I approached you with the same idea there ;-)

So, how's that application going? There isn't a lot of time left. Let
me know if you need any help with the application process - we
(Geeklog) have been through this a couple of times.

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Google+Summer+of+Code+Idea+List
is a start for an ideas page but needs some updates, I would think (as
discussed in the IRC meeting yesterday).