After going in details through all the proposals it turns out we only
have 3 project ideas listed at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Project_ideas
The rest miss a mentor, a more solid justification of relevance and/or a
demonstration of interest from the communities they want to help.
I have pinged the people that proposed 3 ideas, hoping that we will be
able to improve them and list them at the GSOC page:
Lua templates
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#.5Bgeneric.5D_Write_useful_Lua_modules
We need at least one mentor confirmed, and at lest one proposal
identified that would be welcome by the community and would keep a
student busy during 12 weeks. I'd really really like to see this one
happening.
Interwiki notifications framework for InstantCommons
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Build_an_interwiki_notifications_framework_and_implement_it_for_InstantCommons
Nice idea and Dereckson is volunteering as mentor but... do we have any
idea about how this framework should be developed? Has this proposal
been done before? If so, where it is and what the Commons community
thinks about it?
Improve Extension:CSS
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Improve_Extension:CSS
I like this one because it is proposed by a developer of this extension
willing to mentor. More reasoning about the need and the implementation
proposed would be welcome, and also impressions from other developers /
maintainers. Your feedback is welcome at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Improve_.5B.5BExtension:CSS.5D.5D_25458
Then we have another one that looks promising:
Bug 46440 - co-ment-like tool for inline comments
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46440
On 03/22/2013 05:30 AM, Željko Filipin wrote:
Browser test automation[1]?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Browser_Test_Automation
12 weeks of a student to get good coverage of MobileFrontend automated
testing? Maybe, but... One thing is the amount of work. Another thing is
that it feels like quite volatile / WIP work. I'm open to be convinced,
though.
On 03/22/2013 05:36 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:> Hi,
> This may sound naive, but why are "improvements of existing features"
> discarded?
Mmm ok, we can try. As you can see "Improving Extension:CSS" is now a
candidate. Still we need to have the rest of pieces in place: mentor,
justification, etc.
fwiw I pinged the former developers of the Extension:Bugzilla you are
proposing at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Improve_the_mediawiki-bugzilla_extension_to_a_deployable_level
- see https://twitter.com/quimgil/status/315526551762505728
On 03/22/2013 05:46 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
> I've a good number of Mobile app ideas to contribute, but do not think
> I'll be able to mentor. Should I still put those in?
On 03/22/2013 04:40 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> I have some ideas for existing features and extensions that could use
> a good summer's work, and I just added one of them to the page,
> despite not having any ability to personally mentor -- I assumed if
> there was interest it could get picked up by someone. I hope this is
> ok!
Yes please, at the Possible Projects page. It's good to leave your name
as proposer and it's good to tell explicitly that you are not available
for mentoring. We will decide whether to list them as GSOC 2013 project
ideas or not.
But go for the most relevant one explaining it in more detail. You can
mention briefly the rest. One good idea without a mentor today still
stands a chance. Dumping many ideas with no mentor leave little chances
to each.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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