Hi The ideas proposed by Karl are very interesting and are needed to have a more stable version of ManifoldCF in terms of supported connectors.
Regarding the idea of implement new connectors, I have been working lately with Nuxeo [1] and I would like to propose it as a potential new connector to be implemented during this GSoC period. The idea behind this new connector is to use the Nuxeo REST API [2] to implement a native connector for Nuxeo. Karl, in case you think this is an interesting connector to have, I can create a new Jira ticket for that and I volunteer to act as mentor of this possible GSoC project. Regards [1] http://www.nuxeo.com [2] https://doc.nuxeo.com/display/NXDOC/REST+API 2016-03-15 12:27 GMT+01:00 Karl Wright <[email protected]>: > Hi David, > > Thank you for considering ManifoldCF for your GSoC project. > > Most of our potential GSoC projects left over from 2015 involve connectors > for proprietary repositories, unfortunately. These are: > > (1) Livelink connector (CONNECTORS-1117) -- need to reimplement using the > newer REST API > (2) Finishing off the Alfresco Webscript connector (CONNECTORS-1058) -- > need to add the ability to support thread interruptibility > > Other projects that have been discussed include working with SharePoint; > SharePoint has deprecated their web-services API and has instead gone to a > REST API, and we'd need a pair of connectors (authority and repository) to > support that. That's not properly ticketed in Jira for GSoC yet, and it > may be too big for one GSoC project, but we can perhaps break it up into > smaller pieces. > > So, if you can show you have access to one of these three proprietary > repositories for the purposes of development, you could write a proposal > along those lines. > > Alternatively, if you know of any repository that we may not currently have > a connector for that could prove useful to someone, you could propose that > as a project. > > We're currently pretty shorthanded when it comes to mentors, so we will > only be able to accept one or two proposals at most this year. > > Thanks! > Karl > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:44 AM, David Arroyo < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am David Arroyo, undergraduate Software Engineer at University of > > Seville, Spain and I am graduate in a Superior Grade Formative Course on > > multi-platform application development. > > > > During last months, I have been following the mailing list and also > > reviewing some open issues (some of them tagged as gsoc gsoc2015). I > would > > be interested to collaborate in this project to get some experience and I > > think GSoC could be an interesting opportunity to learn about open source > > community development, unkown for me so far, and learning a bit more > about > > the technologies used in this project. > > > > My intention is continue collaborating with the project after GSoC (both > if > > I'm accepted or not) because in summer I have a lot of free time and I > can > > work fixing issues or developing new functionalities. > > > > I am very interested in Manifold and I would like to get information > about > > some connectors that could be needed to be implemented. > > > > I really hope participate in Google Summer of Code 2016 and continue to > > expand my current technical knowledge. > > > > Yours faithfully, > > David Arroyo > > > > -- > > David Arroyo Escobar > > >
