Thanks for the input Zhen, I've updated the projects here: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008#incushindig
- Cassie On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Zhen Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
