Hello,

My name is Patrick Collins and I'm a second year computer science major, 
interested in applying to GSOC via Mailman. I was thinking of taking on the 
following projects:

1) Boilerplate stripper
2) Log monitor

I imagine that (1) would be pretty easy to implement and take no more than a 
week. (2) is more complex, but offers extensibility: I could aim to implement a 
log monitor that, at the bare minimum, warns the admins in case of trouble, and 
then go on to extend it with some visualizations like graphs that track 
subscribers/country, posts/subscriber, and so on. This would give admins the 
added benefit of being able to clearly see trends in the logs that indicate 
issues. 

Would this be be complex enough to merit a GSOC project?

Additionally, I wanted to implement a simple bug fix in order to get familiar 
with the Launchpad system. https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558274 seems 
to be a pretty quick one. Should I write tests to accompany my changes to the 
code, or just perform them on my own machine? Should there be some 
documentation of testing submitted? 

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Patrick Collins
University of Chicago '15
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