Hi James, Matt and all, This is excellent timing! Apache is one of the participating organizations in this Google effort. Members and experienced committers on Apache projects are being solicited to put proposals on this wiki [*] by around June 7; there are already a fair number of proposals there.
So if we have proposals, we'll need someone who's been around for a while to act as a mentor. I wish I could help, but this summer is looking pretty intense for me; so it would be hard for me to commit to being consistently around to guide a newbie through the code they'd have to learn to help out with whatever project they undertake. That said, I hope we can avail ourselves of this opportunity; it sure does look promising! Cheers, Neil [*]: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2005 Neil Graham Manager, XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab Phone: 905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/02/2005 10:38 PM Please respond to c-dev To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [email protected] Subject Re: Google Summer Of Code On Jun 2, 2005, at 5:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found out about this program from Google the other day that would > pay > $5000 USD stipends ($500 USD to project, and $4500 to student > coder) for > spending a summer working on an open source project. There is a lot > of work > to do on Xerces 3.0, perhaps we could take advantage of this to get > a lot of > the work done. Hi Matt, We'd love to have the help, I'm sure. There are quite a few pieces for Xerces 3.0 that either haven't been started, or which got no volunteers and thus aren't currently on the docket. I've just updated the Xerces 3.0 tentative release plan at docs/ releases_plan.xml with some interim status information. I'm also pasting part of that below. If you see something that you think makes a good fit, whether or not it's been spoken for by somebody, feel free to suggest it for SOC by writing to the list... I'm not sure I have the time in the next 2 weeks to shepherd a proposal through the SOC process, and I'm going to be gone for a good part of the summer, but maybe somebody will volunteer for that process, and to be a mentor for your project... ?? ;) James. Here's the excerpt from the release plan: <s3 title="Next Target Release"> <p>The &XercesCName; team is currently working on plans for future releases. At present, we believe there will be a 3.0 release with new functionality targeted roughly at the second half of 2005. As a change in the major version allows us to break source compatibility, we are trying to take our time in order to break now what needs to be broken. There is some chance that changes breaking source compatibility will not be needed, and that "3.0" features will be released in the 2.x line.</p> <p>Further releases in the 2.x line are anticipated concurrent with 3.0 development in order to fix issues or bugs in 2.6. Once 3.0 is released, we may also issue further 2.x releases as needed by the community.</p> <p>&XercesCName; 2.y.z - as needed to address bugs or other issues.</p> <p>&XercesCName; 3.0 - Targetted roughly for second half of 2005.</p> </s3> <s3 title="&XercesCName; 3.0 (tentative) Features list"> <p>The following table lists the potential TODO items for &XercesCName; 3.0. It does not include fixing bugs that are opened in Jira; unless such Jira bug involves a major development effort and requires an architectural redesign, or is an enhancement suggestion,</p> <p>This list tracks current ideas and developer sign-up for 3.0 features. Some items on this list have no volunteer. Items that have no volunteer will receive no development attention and therefore will not become part of 3.0. If you would like to volunteer for these or other items please email the &XercesCName; mailing list</p> <table> <tr> <th>ID</th> <th>Feature Description</th> <th>Volunteer</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>Reorganization of public/private includes</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td>Revisiting/sanity checking of install locations</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>Refactoring of x-platform support</td> <td>Initial cut - James (done)<br/> Basic posix support - James (done)<br/> Mac re-port/test - James (done)<br/> Windows re-port/test - Alberto<br/> Linux re-port/test: Gareth, Alberto [VMWare (Red Hat 9, Red Hat 7.3) and I can add more], Scott Cantor [test], cargilld [w/ xlC]<br/> Solaris - Scott Cantor [test]<br/> Cygwin - Neil/Alberto (mostly done?)<br/> MingGW - Alberto (mostly done?)<br/> Interix - Alberto<br/> AIX - cargilld<br/> OS390 - cargilld </td> </tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td>A true autoconf based build infrastructure</td> <td>James, Jason Stewart, Scott Cantor, John Snelson (mostly done--pending ports of additional platforms) </td> </tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td>Add a libcurl based NetAccessor</td> <td>James (done)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td>DOM 3.0 support</td> <td>Alberto, Gareth </td> </tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td>XPath</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td>XInclude</td> <td>Gareth, Caroline Rioux Graham Innocent </td> </tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td>Add a ACE-based NetAccessor</td> <td>Alberto - as time permits</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td>Add RelaxNG support</td> <td>(Michael Fuller -- would provide some help)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td>Audit/Update of XML Schema support.</td> <td>cargilld</td> </tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td>Const signature changes. [783, 1153, 1223]</td> <td>cargilld</td> </tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td>XML Catalog Support</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td>Roll .c code into template headers?</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th></th><th colspan='2'>Features/APIs to be removed</th> </tr> <tr> <td>20</td> <td>Remove Deprecated DOM altogether - Whether we should actually do this is still being debated. </td> <td>Gareth</td> </tr> <tr> <td>21</td> <td>Remove and/or update deprecated enums</td> <td>Gareth</td> </tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td>Remove non-thread-safe psvi methods</td> <td>Gareth</td> </tr> <tr> <td>23</td> <td>Remove Mac OS Classic Support</td> <td>James</td> </tr> <tr> <td>24</td> <td>Remove OS/2 (or update it)</td> <td>Alberto</td> </tr> <tr> <td>25</td> <td>Remove Borland C++ 4, CodeWarrior, VACPP40 and Unsupported from Windows platform</td> <td>Alberto</td> </tr> <tr> <td>26</td> <td>Audit/Potential removal of all deprecated methods</td> <td>cargilld</td> </tr> <tr> <td>27</td> <td>Remove tests/samples not invoked by sanityTest.pl</td> <td>cargilld / James</td> </tr> </table> </s3> </s2> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
