On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Lorefnon <loref...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to inquire about the project idea for summer of code - Web based > project report that aims to aggregate information from a multitude of > sources (mentioned ones are - Git, Bugzilla and mailing lists) into a > unified web-interface along with useful statistics. > > The project objective that I interpret from the description is to have a > web-interface that can provide a quick overview of the activity and current > status of an open source project. In that retrospect will this be similar to > the popular site Ohloh (http://www.ohloh.net/) ? > > Given that ruby has been mentioned as the language of choice - Would using > Ruby on Rails framework be considered a good idea ? > > Also, while Git and Bugzilla provide structured sources of information, I am > not sure if I fully understand how mailing lists can be used to derive > project statistics. I can think of using machine learning to infer which > users are involved in development of which aspects of project to what extent > - but a bit of elaboration in this regard would certainly help. > > As far as my background is concerned, I am a final year undergraduate > engineering student from IIT Kharagpur, India and have completed my prior > summer of code project in 2011 which used Ruby on Rails. I have been working > off -and-on on projects involving ruby and c++ since. > > With regards, > Gaurab Paul
Rafael: Poke about this one as well. Please take some time a minute to answer. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
