I don't know how much more time there is to apply for the Google Summer of Code program, but I think a great GSOC project could be found in the Spambayes codebase, for an interested programmer.
The Spambayes packaging, installer, integration, pretty much every aspect of the project - is highly impressive. It would be a real boon if there were skeleton code projects/templates for writing generic Microsoft Office plugins. Ideally, you'd copy the boilerplate code into a new directory, set some configuration variables, and have a functioning 'hello, world' plugin for the selected Office application. Developers would add their own functionality with minimal attention to Office Plugin boilerplate, concentrating instead on programming to the Office Object Model. If the templates were a success, perhaps the spambayes developers would sync up own their boilerplate code with these templates, and fold further refinements back into the templates. I recently encountered some legacy VBA code to groom certain data fields in Outlook. The challenging string manipulations would have been trivial in python, so I elected to leave the cozy confines of the VBA IDE. the After following several useful ASPN recipes for interacting with Outlook via python scripting, I have been completely convinced of the advantages of leaving VBA behind in almost every situation. These Python templates would allow a large number of developers to make improvements to legacy Office Automation code, and increase Python exposure in the process. Best of luck (and many thanks) if someone with the necessary skill and time elects to take up the idea. _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list spambayes-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
