Hi all, I would like to propose an Apache Lab called "ASF Community recommendations". The goal of the lab would be to host a web application that issues recommendations to ASF committers for source code files they might be interested to co-author with others. The webapp would be generated by WebDSL, a domain-specific language for the implementation of dynamic web applications [1].
I am currently developing a sub-language for collaborative filtering in WebDSL using Apache Mahout and SVNPlot [2]. Apache Labs would be the ideal place to test this sub-language and related preprocessing scripts in SVNPlot. In addition, I am proposing an alternate Google Summer of Code project based on these developments and the proposed "ASF Community recommendations" lab. In relation to the project I am also proposing to give a presentation at ApacheCon NA later this year. The motivation for the lab is to increase collaboration within and across ASF (incubator) communities based on source code co-authorship. I believe the lab can really have an impact, for example on incubator communities. But of course that is something that needs to be tested first. And Apache Labs would be the ideal place for that! [1] http://webdsl.org/page/About [2] http://code.google.com/p/svnplot/wiki/GSoC2010Contributions -- best, -oscar Oscar Castañeda http://people.apache.org/~ocastaneda
