Christopher writes:
> I am not a student, but I am working as a software engineer full
> time (10-6 on weekdays). I would like to start contributing to open
> source projects and stumbled upon GSoC which I thought it's a great
> opportunity to get started. If I am able to churn out 14.5 hours of
> work per week (by working on the weekends) across 12 weeks (summing
> up to 175 hours), do I stand a chance to be accepted as a GSoC
> participant?
You stand a chance, yes. I don't know if we have specific preference
for students, I'll have to discuss it with Abhilash, but we're not
going to rule you out because you're working already. At present
you're the only person who's expressed interest, too. :-) (That
doesn't mean nobody's downloading code and looking for easy patches,
though.)
In a later post you mention the "REST Callbacks" task. I think that
was Abhilash's idea, I'll see if I can get him to flesh it out a
little. But the basic idea is exactly as stated in the ideas page:
Request Request
+------+ 1 +-----------+ 2 +------+
| |---->| |---->| |
| User | | Postorius | | Core |
| |<----| |<----| |
+------+ 4 +-----------+ 3 +------+
Response Response
So this means that, for example, Postorius can't present a real-time
dashboard for moderators that shows whether a list has held posts that
the moderator needs to check and approve or reject. The system needs
to start with a request at 1, pass it on to 2, then core responds at
3, and finally Postorius passes it back to the user at 4. What we'd
like to be able to do is register a callback with core so that when it
receives and holds a post, it tells Postorius without needing a
request, and then Postorius would update the dashboard.
The dashboard (Postorius <--> User interaction) is not part of this
project. At present we don't have such a real-time interaction
between Postorius and the user. But for that to be most useful,
rather than have Postorius continuously polling core with "are there
held message? are there held messages? are there held messages? ...",
we want to use such a callback mechanism. The REST API callbacks are
a first step in that direction.
Steve
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