All are excellent ideas, though I'm afraid that adding another language support might be too challenging a 10-week summer of code project.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Cassie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, here's what I've got so far, let me know what you think: > > > - Add support for a different language (ie a ruby on rails port or > something) > - do we want this? if so, what language would be most useful? > - Add more features to the sample container and gadgets.js > - The goal here would be to put more container-side code into shindig > . Right now most of the code we have deals with things inside the gadget > iframe, and gadgets.js needs some improvements in order to be > feasible for > real containers. > - For the sample container, we could add UIs for things like > "share app" and "request permission" > - Could also add things like a canvas mode to the sample > container, the ability to add more than one gadget, and drag them around > (people have brought up the fact that they wanted to see more > examples) etc > etc > - Add testing infrastructure, and some tests, for the shindig > javascript and/or sample container > - this could either be done using something like selenium or js unit > - in the long run, we probably need both. but we could leave > this slightly open ended for the project definition > - Add php wrappers for opensocial gadgets. Essentially let people > write gadgets that look more like what facebook has, and let them run on > opensocial. > - This would probably be dependent on the server-to-server apis > working. > - We could perhaps mention some RESTful api support because no one has > started on it yet > - not sure if it really wont start before May 26th.. but we > could see > > There are also some other projects who want to integrate with us, tuscany > and roller so far. > > Let me know what you guys think about these ideas. I will post whichever > ones nobody disagrees with on the summer of code listing page. > Thanks. > > - Cassie > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Cassie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to support summer of code as a mentor. > > > > To do so, we need project ideas for Shindig. Once we have these ideas, we > > just need to post them here: > > http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 > > > > And hope that we get some participators interested. Coding starts on May > > 26th, so the project has to be something that we aren't interested in or > > don't have the time to do in the next couple of months. Does anyone have > any > > projects that they think would take a new contributor about 2 1/2 months to > > accomplish? > > > > I'll start thinking too... > > Thanks! > > > > - Cassie > > >
