GSoC 2017

[Abado Jack Mtulla]

Hello,

I am Abado Jacob Mtulla, a 3rd year Computer Science student. I would 
love to implement the Go bindings for Xapian.


On 01/16/2017 05:55 AM, Olly Betts wrote:
> Google are running their Summer of Code again this year.  If you're not
> familiar with it, see:
>
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
>
> Last year was very successful and I think we probably want to apply
> again this year, assuming there are a sufficient number of people
> interested in mentoring to make it worthwhile.
>
> Org application open on 19th (this Thursday) though the deadline
> is February 9th, so we have a little time to sort ourselves out.
>
> The main priorities right now are:
>
>   * Identifying potential mentors - currently 3 people (including myself)
>     have indicated willingness for this year, but I've not actively asked
>     around yet.
>
>     If you're interested, talk to James Aylett or me.  You certainly
>     don't need to understand all of Xapian in detail to usefully mentor
>     - any questions you can't answer can be directed to others, and a lot
>     of it is helping students with learning more generic skills - for
>     example what a good commit looks like, automated testing, etc.
>
>     I'd particularly encourage previous GSoC students to consider
>     mentoring - it's a great way to get more involved, and having seen
>     the process from the other side is very helpful.
>
>   * Refreshing the list of project ideas.  James and I have done some
>     cleaning up, but the better the breadth and depth of ideas we have,
>     the more likely we are to be selected:
>   
>     https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas
>
>     Ideas do *NOT* have to be for work on Xapian itself - projects
>     related to Xapian in other software are within scope (e.g.
>     integrating Xapian into a framework, or adding Xapian search to an
>     application).  You'll need to provide mentoring related to the
>     other software, but we can help out with Xapian-specific questions.
>
>     Ideas don't need to be fully planned out - we expect the students to
>     do some research, planning and to discuss the project as part of
>     getting from the project idea to their proposal.  But we do need to
>     clearly say what the aims are, give some pointers to useful
>     resources, and a list of required or beneficial skills.  And the
>     scope needs to be suitable for taking a student developer about 12
>     weeks of full time work to complete and get merged.
>
>     If you have a suitable idea, feel free to add it to the page, or
>     raise it for discussion here or on IRC.
>
>     This list is one of the key things the GSoC team look at when
>     reviewing org applications, so we want it to be in great shape by
>     February 9th.  You can still add or improve ideas after then, but
>     it's less likely to make a difference to us being selected.
>
>   * Talking to the students who've started to appear.
>
> If you are a student eligible for GSoC and interested in working on
> Xapian, please feel free to get in touch.  You don't have to choose from
> the ideas on the list - you're welcome to propose your own project
> ideas.
>
> If you want to discuss being a mentor or a student, or a project idea,
> you can do so on the mailing list or on #xapian on freenode (if you
> aren't already an IRC user, see https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC_IRC for
> links to a web IRC client).
>
> There's also a general GSoC IRC channel - #gsoc on freenode.
>
> Cheers,
>      Olly
>