Hi Kai, I am extremely thrilled by your positive response towards Summer of Code program. >From your previous emails, I gather that you have active interests in Project Kerby and Fortress (Is that right?)
Looking forward, *Ritika Nevatia* *Student**, University of Mumbai* Mobile: +91-900-430-9190 <http://in.linkedin.com/in/nevatiaritika> <http://blogger.com/profile/beingritika.blogspot.com> <http://twitter.com/beingritika> <http://facebook.com/nevatiaritika> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Zheng, Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ritika, > > > > Thanks for your investigation and rational. It makes sense to me. I’m sure > and happy to mentor you if everything goes well. I guess we can try and > make it happen. > > > > Regards, > > Kai > > > > *From:* Ritika Nevatia [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, January 26, 2015 4:10 PM > > *To:* Apache Directory Developers List > *Subject:* Re: Would like to contribute: Student, GSOC Aspirant > > > > Hi Kai > > > > Google Summer of Code is held annually where different Open Source > organizations have come together to involve students to promote and > contribute to open source developement. > > Apache Software Foundation as an organization has been participating in > GSOC since 2010. Links to successful projects in the past are (you'll have > to filter them by organization): > > 2010 (39 projects by Apache) > <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2010>, 2011(35 > projects) > <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011>, 2012(38 > projects) > <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012>, 2013(44 > projects) > <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2013> and > 2014(33 > projects) > <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2014>. > > Apache DS has been working on interesting projects for quite sometime now > and involvement in GSOC will attract more Open Source Contributions. As a > mentoring organization in GOSC, Apache DS can get done modules and parts of > their code through interns who will be paid by GSOC. Apache DS will have to > provide a mentor for each student they select. More information about being > a mentor organization can be found here > <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#1._What_is_a_mentoring_organization>. > As a mentor organization, you will have to submit a proposal of the > sub-project you are interested in having interns for from 9th February > 2015 to 20th February. > <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015> > > > > I am glad that you find this interesting. > > Since my aim is to participate in GSOC as a student intern, yes, I would > actively like to investigate and contribute to Apache DS to participate in > this event. > > > > Do let me know if you would like to be a mentor or someone from the > community would be interested, and if there is anything I could do to > support so. > > > > Meanwhile, I am going through the sub-tasks and understanding the projects > in order to contribute to them. > > > > Thanks! > > ** > > *Ritika Nevatia* *Student, University of Mumbai* > > Mobile: +91-900-430-9190 > > <http://in.linkedin.com/in/nevatiaritika> > <http://blogger.com/profile/beingritika.blogspot.com> > <http://twitter.com/beingritika> <http://facebook.com/nevatiaritika> > > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Zheng, Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Will Apache DS be interested in mentoring as a part of Google Summer > of Code 2015 as my major aim to contribute is participating in the same > program. > > Interesting! Maybe you could help think about it and give your thoughts > why ApacheDS (or its sub-projects) should/would consider that. Something > like the benefits, possibilities, successful example cases (for an Apache > project) and howto. This will be a very interesting topic, would you help > investigate and contribute? Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Kai > > > > *From:* Ritika Nevatia [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:40 PM > *To:* Apache Directory Developers List > *Subject:* Re: Would like to contribute: Student, GSOC Aspirant > > > > Hi Emmanuel > > > > Thank you for the very brief introduction to all the sub-projects and the > welcome. > > After going through the descriptions of all sub-projects, I would like to > contribute to Database (Mavibot) or Web UI (Fortress) areas as these are > my strengths. However, I am also interested in taking up protocol > implementation for Kerby if it lies within my capability. > > > > As I mentioned to Kai, I could get started with a few basic tasks/solving > bugs. If you could yourself assign me a part of testing/coding considering > my newness with the project. Or I could help you get started with building > the website and documentation as listed in the issues list and later take > up some coding work. > > > > I also had a question: Will Apache DS be interested in mentoring as a part > of Google Summer of Code 2015 as my major aim to contribute is > participating in the same program. > > > > Looking forward, > > Thanks > > ** > > *Ritika Nevatia* *Student, University of Mumbai* > > Mobile: +91-900-430-9190 > > <http://in.linkedin.com/in/nevatiaritika> > <http://blogger.com/profile/beingritika.blogspot.com> > <http://twitter.com/beingritika> <http://facebook.com/nevatiaritika> > > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Le 25/01/15 00:29, Ritika Nevatia a écrit : > > Hi > > Hi !!! > > > > I am Ritika Nevatia, student from India aspiring to develop some Open > > Source code this summer under Google Summer of Code 2015. > > > > I'd like to contribute to Apache Directory Project and need a starting > > point and guidance for the same. I am fairly competent in Java and have > > attached my resume in case you need further details. > > > > Looking forward, > > Ok, we would be pleased to get you working on some of the Directory > projects. Now, we have many of them, and it would be better if you were > to give us a quick insight about what technical area you are the most > interested in, and which specific project you would like to work on. > Typically, here is a list of the sub-project we are working on : > > - ApacheDS, the Apache LDAP Server (12 years old, 221,237 SLOCs). > - Studio, the eclipse based LDAP brower (10 years old, SLOCs) > - Ldap APi, the Apache LDAP API (7 years old, 208,923 SLOCs) > - Mavibot, the MVCC Btree (3 years old, 23,999 SLOCs) > - eSCIMo, the SCIM implementation (2 years old, no release yet, 7,125 > SLOCs) > - Fortress, the RBAC API and engine (6 months old, no release yet, > 67,578 SLOCs) > - Kerby, the Kerberos server (1 month old, no release yet, 31,376 SLOCs) > > I ordered them by their inception date, from the oldest (12 years) to > the most recent (Kerby, 1 month). (SLOCS means 'single lone of code', ie > pure code without the blank line and comments) > > There are various technical areas here, from Data base (Mavibot), > protocol implementation (ApacheDS, Kerby), server side java (ApacheDS, > Fortress, Kerby), Client side API (LDAP API, eSCIMo, Fortress, Kerby), > Eclipse GUI (Studio), Web UI (Fortress). > > We also need some more tests, a tool that run tests through a > distributed ste of agents (and I'll have a small peice of code that does > that with Rapberry pi soon), etc. > > What fits you the best ? > > Thanks ! > > > > >
