On 04/29/2013 05:27 PM, Quim Gil wrote:

On 04/29/2013 02:18 PM, Aayush Sharma wrote:

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aayush251/gsoc Please review my GSoC application.

Hi Aayush, please write more specific emails in a mailing list. It will help getting more people looking at your proposal.

You could also have pasted the summary here, so people can have a look and decide whether they want to check more or not.

For instance, in your proposal you say

GSoC Project Idea: MediaWiki API 2.0

I will be working and modifying MediaWiki API to solve the following problems:

 * Avoiding client to update every time API changes
 * Developers will develop extensions from the single default API 

(recommended). * Reduce the cost of making a change in MediaWiki. * Organize feature changes - if the client asks for ver X, API guarantees the capabilities of X and result in format X. * Avoid cluttering of parameters. * All API capabilities should return only the data requested to minimize bandwidth and improve speed.

Good luck!

Hi, Aayush. I'm cc'ing the mediawiki-api mailing list.

Some questions:

* Do you plan on working in a branch for a few weeks or months and then merging it into master on September 10th? It seems to me that it would be better to write improvements one by one and have a lot of smaller merges. * What kind of documentation will you be writing? A walkthrough of the code so future developers can understand it? Some kind of user-facing manual? Other things? * Have you already reviewed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API/REST_proposal , read the last few months of the mediawiki-api mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api , and looked at the recent changes to the API code https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/message:api+status:merged,n,z to see what the current trends are? * Can you tell us how long it has taken you to do similar projects in the past? * Who are your mentors?