Well it seems a lot of work to do, but I have some basic ideas about this 
project. Thanks for your reply.
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>   1. Re: [GSoC 2016]Introduction (Thomas Mortagne)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:27:01 +0100
> From: Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>
> To: XWiki Developers <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] [GSoC 2016]Introduction
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> Hi Jian,
> 
> It's great that this project drive so much attention :)
> 
> I will copy/paste what I told Manish since you are interested in the
> same project:
> 
> We mostly discuss projects here so no need to contact me directly.
> 
> What is in https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/android-authenticator is
> mostly a not finished crappy POC aiming at the following goal:
> 
> 1) Provide a reusable standard Android authenticator that any
> application would use to communicate with an XWiki instance. The same way many
> applications propose you to reuse the registered Google accounts for example. 
> It
> must be as safe as possible (no clear password given to all
> application asking for it for example :)).
> 
> 2) As both an example of how to use this authenticator and a very
> useful tool, implement a synchronization adapter which will be in
> charge of:
> ** putting all (or a configurable subset of) the users from the
> wiki in your Android contacts and automatically update them
> ** (nice to have) allow modifying those Android contacts and send the
> modifications to the wiki
> 
> There is a lot of stuff already started but should not be taken as
> granted and at the end the result should be:
> * well documented (especially what an application author should do to
> use that connector properly but also for anyone that want to continue
> working on it)
> * have automated tests
> * easily built without something like Android Studio (probably graddle
> which seems to be the new standard in Android world. XWiki is mainly
> using Maven right now and Maven have Android plugins.), it will also
> need to be automatically built on http://ci.xwiki.org
> 
> Of course the plan is to have it on Google Play Store at the end :)
> 
> Feature wise this project is not very big (and it's already started)
> but the most important thing is to be as standard and integrated as
> possible and easy to use for applications that would want to
> manipulate an XWiki instance.
> 
> Your proposal should details what you plan to do, what Android version
> your are targeting (should support version as old as possible since
> latest version are far from being as common as application authors
> would like them to be :)), etc.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Jian Guo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear developers:
>>       My name is Jian Guo. I have been studied Software Engineering for
>> two years in Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), China. I
>> noticed that you have been accepted as mentor organization in GSoC 2016. I
>> am familiar in Java and Android Development so I am really interested in
>> the idea - Android XWiki authenticator and contact synchronization
>> mentioned in your idea page. I would like to ask whether there are more
>> details about this idea. What does the "Android account" refer to here?
>>       Looking forward to your reply.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:28:20 +0530
> From: Nanduni Nimalsiri <[email protected]>
> To: Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>
> Cc: XWiki Developers <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] GSoC 2016 - Improve l10n.xwiki.org
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> Dear Sir,
> 
> Thank you very much for the quick reply. I like UX stuff basically and
> that's why I am very interested in this project. I am trying to get
> familiarized with the translator, so that I can come up with
> better suggestions for improvements.  I would be very much glad if you
> can enable
> Sinhalese support for me to experience the translator further.
> 
> I shall follow your instructions and report once done or if I have any
> problem. Thank you.
> 
> Best regards,
> Nanduni.
> 
> On 1 March 2016 at 13:44, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Nanduni,
>> 
>> Always great to see someone so interested in working on XWiki :)
>> 
>> We did not really defined any scope for l10n proposal. For me the best
>> is that you play a bit with it (maybe translate a few things, I can
>> enable Sinhalese or some other language that would not be listed yet
>> if you want) and see what are the main pain points for a translator.
>> You also have a few ideas on
>> 
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Improvel10nxwikiorg2016
>> and http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/i10n.
>> 
>> Then you make a proposal with what you think you can achieve in the
>> GSOC timeframe.
>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/i10n is a good
>> place to put details of your proposal and then discuss it on the
>> mailing list with the community.
>> 
>> Note: you can also ask quick questions on IRC (see
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/). My id on IRC is tmortagne
>> (but no need to always as to me personally :)) there and my time zone
>> is GMT+1 (France) and it's more or less the same for most of the core
>> dev team.
>> 
>> Here are the main features right now:
>> 
>> 1) A UI for contributor to translation keys with mainly
>> ** a UI which display all keys filtered by language, resource and
>> status (empty, outdated, etc)
>> ** a search UI
>> 
>> This is the main target for the GSOC. The idea is to make easier to
>> contribute.
>> 
>> 2) UI and automated scheduler to update the keys and default
>> translation on l10n.xwiki.org from the source (add new keys, update
>> the english version if something change on git side, etc)
>> 
>> This is used mostly by the dev team but it could use some love, like
>> making things more asynchronous (right now you start an import, get a
>> timeout and hope that it will be done at some point on the background)
>> 
>> 3) UI and API to export translation as usable resources (that's mainly)
>> 
>> This one is ok enough for now so unless you see some easy improvements
>> on your side no need to concentrate too much on it.
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Nanduni Nimalsiri
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear Sir,
>>> 
>>> I am *Nanduni Nimalsiri,* a third year undergraduate at Department of
>>> Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I
>> had
>>> been going through the XWiki's GSoC projects ideas list since 20th
>> February
>>> and  I was very eagerly waiting for XWiki to get selected for the 2016
>>> Google Summer of Code programme. I am very happy that XWiki got selected
>>> this time, because I had always been expecting to take part in a  GSoC
>>> project with XWiki community.
>>> 
>>> Actually I am very interested in contributing to open source projects
>> and I
>>> already have experiences in working with a variety of open source
>> projects.
>>> I am very familiar in programming with Java, C, C#, JavaScript, PHP, XML,
>>> jQuery, web designing, cloud applications and many more which I have used
>>> for most of my university projects and other exterior projects. I am a
>>> quick learner and I am very confident that I would be able to catch up
>> with
>>> new technologies very soon.
>>> 
>>> I am very familiar with JavaScript  and UI stuff. So I found an
>> interesting
>>> project in XWiki ideas list that matches with my interests. Out of the
>>> project ideas listed, I would like to contribute to the project *Improve
>>> l10n.xwiki.org
>>> <
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Improvel10nxwikiorg2016
>>> .
>>> *The
>>> project description includes : "*The student will have to study it and
>>> propose improvements, there is no definite list of things to do*". Can
>> you
>>> please let me know the scope of this proposed project and how I should
>> get
>>> started. Thank you.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Nanduni.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> *Nanduni Nimalsiri*
>>> Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
>>> of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
>>> Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
>>> email : [email protected], [email protected]
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Thomas Mortagne
>> 
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> 
> --
> *Nanduni Nimalsiri*
> Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
> of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
> Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
> email : [email protected], [email protected]
> blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
> website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
> mobile : +94714114256
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:22:43 +0200
> From: "Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)" <[email protected]>
> To: XWiki Mailinglist <[email protected]>, XWiki Mailinglist
>       <[email protected]>
> Subject: [xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki 7.4.2 released
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> The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki
> 7.4.2.
> This is a bugfix release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 7.4.1
> version.
> 
> You can download it here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download
> 
> Make sure to review the release notes:
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki742
> 
> The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted
> alphabetically):
> Alexandru Cotiug?
> Denis Gervalle
> Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
> Eduard Moraru
> Guillaume Delhumeau
> Sergiu Dumitriu
> Thomas Mortagne
> Vincent Massol
> 
> Thanks for your support
> -The XWiki dev team
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:58:37 +0530
> From: Anjali <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [xwiki-devs] GSoC 2016
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> Hi,
> 
> I am a GSoC 2016 aspirant. I am interested in the project *"**Convert
> existing tests to the latest technologies*". I was a GSoC student last
> year. I worked on a project "Automation Testing" where I used Selenium,
> Maven, JUnit etc in building a Java Based Testing Framework.
> 
> I would highly appreciate if I could get any pointers so that I could come
> up with a good proposal.
> 
> Thank You.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Anjali
> 
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