On 18 March 2014 13:37, Jennifer Parak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your reply! I've just looking into the Live syntax high > lightening issue and it looks really exciting. > Is it possible for me to work on it? How much has been done? Or would you > want me to start from the scratch? > Please let me know so I can look into it and work on my proposal. > > Cheers, > Jennifer > Not a lot of code has been committed by the last student that attempted this, you can get an overview of the branch here: https://github.com/apache/bloodhound/commits/livesyntaxhighlighting Only the changes on Sep 18, 2013 and Oct 04, 2013 are relevant, with most changes happening in this one commit: https://github.com/apache/bloodhound/commit/fbbff24ecebfb206e7d31f82c9acc21efee98fae It's up to you if you want to base your work on this or start from scratch, either way a lot of work is probably left to be done :-) - Joe > > > On 17 Mar 2014, at 11:26, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Jennifer Parak <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Hey Everyone! > >> > >> My name is Jennifer Parak (please feel free to call me Jen), I'm a 3rd > >> Year Student at University of Sheffield studying Information Management > & > >> Technology. > >> Thanks a lot for organising the Meetup today! It was really good seeing > >> the Mentors and getting an overview of the project. > >> > >> I'm new to GSOC, so excuse me if I'm a bit slow and hesitant at the > start, > >> but I'm really excited to get started with the projects. > >> I'm very interested in front-end projects such as COMDEV-111 and > >> especially COMDEV-112, because it leaves room for creativity and I would > >> love building something that I contribute by exchanging ideas. > >> I also want to learn a lot during my internship, which is why I would > like > >> to choose a project that requires several different skills. I'm > confident > >> with Python, HTML, CSS and Javascript, so I should be well prepared and > set > >> up for the projects. Is it a problem if I've never worked with > Bootstrap or > >> jQuery? I'm happy to look into new frameworks and I'm sure I can pick > them > >> up really quickly. > >> Any comments that might help me decide one of those projects? > >> > > > > I missed the first question in my earlier reply. There are two > individuals > > that have started on proposals for COMDEV-111 and COMDEV-112, which is > not > > to say that you can't also work the projects. > > > > When considering the projects, you can ask yourself whether you want to > > work on something strongly focused on the server-side, client-side or a > > nice balance of each. It shouldn't be a problem that you haven't worked > > with Bootstrap or jQuery. If your project will utilize a lot of > JavaScript > > though, you'll want to do some reading / tutorials to get familiar with > > jQuery. It is an amazing and powerful library! > > > > We also have some projects from last summer that weren't completed. The > > "Live Syntax Highlighting" project always looked interesting to me: > > https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/query?status=!closed&keywords=~gsoc > > "Live Syntax Highlighting" would be weighted to the client-side I think. > > > > If you wanted to work on one of those, we (the mentors) might have to put > > an issue in COMDEV, but I think there is still time to do that. > > -- Joachim Dreimann | *User Experience Manager* WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data* e. [email protected] twitter @jdreimann <https://twitter.com/jdreimann>
