Hey Svyatoslav, That's great you're interested in adding py3k support for Scrapy, and that you've started thinking about the GSoC application early! The preferred way to discuss the details is to use this mailing list. Feel free to ask any questions here.
For Py3k project I suggest anyone to get familiar with Scrapy testing setup first. The first goal is to make Scrapy tests run in Python 3.3 via tox. One thing that blocks it is that the test runner we use (twisted.trial.runner) is not ported yet - see http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/5965. Twisted guys have pretty strict policies regarding Python 3 support patches: basically, if a patch is not minimal, doesn't follow some rules or is not covered with tests, most likely it won't get merged. It'll be great to see some steps in this direction before GSoC actually starts :) I have ported a lot of code to Python 3.x myself, and usually this is more about proper testing than about making changes to the actual code. I may be asking too much, and this is not necessary, but we'll definitely prefer applications from student who have a track record of contributing to Scrapy and/or Twisted, because such students are more likely to succeed - and we all want GSoC to be successful. воскресенье, 16 февраля 2014 г., 19:52:59 UTC+6 пользователь Svyatoslav Sydorenko написал: > > Hi, > > My name is Svyatoslav Sydorenko. I'm postgraduate at NTUU > 'KPI'<http://kpi.ua/en>(Kyiv, Ukraine), Bachelor in Computer Science. > I'd like to work on mentioned > task<https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/wiki/GSoC-2014-Ideas#wiki-python-3-support>in > scope of this year's GSOC. > > I've started using scrapy about 6 months ago (crawled real estate > web-sites and some more complex resources with POST-request only > navigation), and being a big fan of Python 3 I'd like to implement py3k > support for Scrapy. > Should I contact mentor in order to discuss some details? What is a > preferable way of communication? > > > Kind regards, > Svyatoslav. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
