Thank you so much for your help, Mr. Paul. I will contact the mentors and 
learn more about the project ideas to prepare for my up-coming application.

On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 10:26:16 AM UTC-4, Paul Tremberth wrote:
>
> Hello Chau Tung Lam,
>
> It's great to hear that you are interested in participating in GSoC 2017 
> with Scrapy!
>
> As for the projects that you find interesting,
>
> For the HTTP/1.1 downloader, I personally think that it has lost a bit of 
> its substance because of recent fixes in Twisted and Scrapy.
> Please read the recent messages on the mailing list: 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scrapy-users/UN5P1AJMKxk/9DB0zRfLAAAJ and 
> subsequent discussion
> HTTP/2 support looks more valuable, and it could mean workin with the 
> Twisted team too (which I don't know if they are in GSoC).
>
> Regarding scrapy Integration Tests, I believe the description in 
> http://gsoc2017.scrapinghub.com/ideas/#integration-tests already gives a 
> good idea of what the project should achieve.
> I think the main idea is to run scrapy within an environment where the 
> whole network is under control, where you can play with slow websites, or 
> where DNS failures are frequent...
> I'm not familiar with the existing tools that can be used for this, but 
> I'm sure there are plenty, and it's certainly not a project to re-create a 
> network emulation tool.
>
> The listen mentor is Daniel Grana (
> http://gsoc2017.scrapinghub.com/mentors/)
> Have you contacted him?
>
> Best,
> Paul.
>
> On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 3:09:11 PM UTC+1, Chau Tung Lam Nguyen wrote:
>>
>> Hi, 
>>
>> My name is Chau Tung Lam, currently a sophomore majoring in Computer 
>> Science in SUNY Plattsburgh, NY. After researching about the organizations 
>> participating in GSoC 2017, I am interested in contributing to Scrapy 
>> project. In detail, I am interested in Scrapy Integration Tests and the New 
>> HTTP/1.1 download handler. Therefore, can you guys help me with getting to 
>> know more about the project ideas?
>>
>> Thank you so much.
>>
>

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