Hi everyone,
I am a Computer Science student at undergrad level and would love to
contribute to either of projects mentioned below.
I am currently in the process drafting the proposal and would be grateful
for any help in clearing grey areas.
Based on guidance and feedback, *I plan to submit one proposal out of these
two topics*.
The entire mail is an effort to seek help in defining scope, goals of
project and timeline more clearly.
*#1 Demos > web server in chapel*
*Prior (relevant) experience : *
My last year GSoC project involved porting libevent to a new platform (full
details about the same can be seen at https://deepankar.io/gsoc ) during
which I became acquianted with libevent and improved upon the understanding
of sockets/netwrok programming.
I have never written a web server but have been ardent user of same in
various capabilities.
*Questions and grey areas:*
#1 Defining the rubric "simple" in "simple web server" more tangibly, one
of the most difficult task (for me) is coming up with a clear timeline. As
per my understanding, a simple web server gives at least following
capabilities
- If a url is mapped to directory then show the list of directory
content . and if the user clicks on non-executable file then it must be
downloaded.
- Executing scripts (of chapel) when url pointing to them is called.
- Executing scripts of other language with their respective
interpreters php-cgi, system exec etc (there will be likely a new process
per script)
- Implementation must leverage chapel 'unique' capabilities.
Inviting comments on above listed points, what should be added/modified ?
#2 Should the implementation focus on ipv4 and 6 both or I can focus on
ipv4 only at first. ( I am not entirely sure if this is even a valid
question)
#3 Do mentors have preferred library among libevent, libev, libuv etc.
#4 Should the calls be blocked or unblocked or both should be supported ?
*#2 Runtime > Reporting stack traces on halt*
*Prior (relevant) experience : *
None as an implementor. Only as a user of various languages with this
capability.
*Questions and grey areas:*
Most likely the pace of implementation will increase(change) in non-linear
fashion, ie later half after gsoc-midterm will be more productive in terms
of code commits.
However I am confused what must be reasonable deliverables by gsoc-midterm
for this project since "investigation phase" may be finished quickly or may
take time.
I will be grateful for any suggestion for deliverables by gsoc-midterms
*Lastly,*
What would be preferred means to see/get progress reports, interactions and
preferred frequency of the same ?
and
Assuming I am interested in both of them with equal priority, which project
would mentor(s) recommend submitting proposal for ?
Apologies for the long and probably irrelevant mail.
Some hyperlinks
Github <https://github.com/codebuff> || Linkedin
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/codebuff> || deepankar.io
Best Regards.
*Deepankar Tyagi*
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