I forgot to mention http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines#HIncreasingyourchancesofbeingacceptedasastudent which give a few ideas to increase the chances to be selected.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
