Excellent. Which difficult you think it should have ?  beginner,
intermediate or advanced ?

thanks

Mariano

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is the description for a project related to Pier.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
>
> ----------
>
> Extensible parsing and persistency for Pier
>
>
> Mentors: Tudor Girba, Lukas Renggli
>
> Pier is an open-source content management system that aims at allowing
> users to manage their content from the browser. It is based on a highly
> object-oriented model dealing with multiple issues: multiple types of
> structures that are meta-described, security management, user management, or
> persistency. The preferred way to define content is through an wiki-like
> syntax. Using this syntax, the user can specify multiple types of links, can
> choose to embed entire structures, and it can even access external services
> (like YouTube).
>
> This project will tackle two important problems related to extending Pier:
> 1.  While the Pier model is extensible the parser of the Pier syntax is not
> easily extensible. The first job will be to rewrite the Pier parser to offer
> hooks for syntax extensions. A possible path towards this implementation is
> the use of the PetitParser framework.
> 2. The main persistency mechanism in Pier is image-based. While the Pier
> model is meta-described for most parts, there are still parts that are
> accessed directly without the use of meta-descriptions. This poses a problem
> for a generic persistency mechanism. The second part of the project will
> focus on providing a mechanism for allowing each structure to specify a
> persistency strategy.
>
> Benefits for the student:
> - learn about meta-modeling and parsing.
> - learn Seaside and work on a platform that has a wide acceptance already.
>
> Benefits for the community:
> - a better content management system
>
>
>
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