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#.5Bgener... 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... 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_... 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#Imp...
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, Ċ½eljko Filipin wrote:
Browser test automation[1]?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Browser_... 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_... - 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.