From 6f1e199250c8ccbff6187f2b7ccf917bb8f375c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hisham Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:36:00 -0200 Subject: Add pages for LuaRocks GSoC 2017 org application --- gsoc/apply2017.html | 74 +++++++++++++++ gsoc/ideas2017.html | 254 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 328 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gsoc/apply2017.html create mode 100644 gsoc/ideas2017.html (limited to 'gsoc') diff --git a/gsoc/apply2017.html b/gsoc/apply2017.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7046f20d --- /dev/null +++ b/gsoc/apply2017.html @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ + + + + + + + + +
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Student Application - Google Summer of Code 2017

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(Many thanks to LabLua for the student application template on which this one is largely based!)

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Basics

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  1. What is your preferred email address? +
  2. Do you have a web page / blog / GitHub account? +
  3. What is your academic background? +
  4. What other time commitments, such as school work, another job (GSoC is a full-time activity!), or planned vacations will you have during the period of GSoC? +
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Experience

+ +
  1. What programming languages are you fluent in? Which tools do you normally use for development? +
  2. Are you familiar with the Lua programming language? Have you developed any projects using Lua? +
  3. Have you ever used LuaRocks? +
  4. Have you developed software in a team environment before? Any projects with actual users? +
  5. What kinds of projects/software have you worked on previously? + (anything larger than a class project: academic research, + internships, freelance, hobby projects, etc.) +
  6. Are you (or have you been) involved with any free software development project? If so, briefly describe the project and the scope of your involvement. +
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PROJECT

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  1. Did you select a project from our list? If yes, which project did + you select? Why did you choose this project? + If you are proposing a project, give a description of your proposal, + including the expected results. +
  2. Please provide a schedule with dates and important milestones/deliverables, +in two week increments). +
  3. What will be showable one month into the project? +
  4. What will be showable two months into the project? +
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GSOC

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  1. Have you participated as a student in GSoC before? If so, How many times, which year, which project? +
  2. Have you applied but were not selected? When, and to which organization? +
  3. Did you apply this year to any other organizations? +
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Ideas List - Google Summer of Code 2017

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Social enhancements for LuaRocks.org

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Brief explanation

+ +

+The LuaRocks.org website is where Lua users and developers find and upload Lua modules. Users +can currently create accounts for uploading modules and also for "following" modules, which +produces notifications in the top bar when other users follow your modules. There's a lot +more, however, that we could add to improve the site experience, such as: +

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  • add the distinction betwen "starring"/following modules, like GitHub
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  • add the ability to follow developers
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  • show a feed of updates to modules you star
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  • send an email digest for modules you follow
    • +
  • and other ideas!
    • +
+ +

Knowledge prerequisites

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    +
  • Lua
    • +
  • web development
    • +
  • LuaRocks experience is a plus
    • +
  • MoonScript is a plus (but can be learned for the project)
    • +
+ +

Skill level

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medium

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Mentor

+

+Leaf Corcoran +

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+

Module management enhancements for LuaRocks.org

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Brief explanation

+ +

+The LuaRocks.org website is where Lua users and developers find and upload Lua modules. Users +can currently create accounts for uploading modules, and each module becomes attached to one +user account. For organizations with multiple developers, this can prove cumbersome. Also, +the only ways to upload modules are via the command-line tool or via the web interface. +This project aims to improve LuaRocks.org support for organizations, via two main goals: +

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  • Organization accounts/modules shared across accounts, showing module stats on +module pages
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  • Better GitHub integration: automatically creating new module +versions with webhook, automatically syncing readme, showing module popularity +on GitHub
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Knowledge prerequisites

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  • Lua
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  • web development
    • +
  • JSON and REST APIs
    • +
  • LuaRocks experience is a plus
    • +
  • MoonScript is a plus (but can be learned for the project!)
    • +
  • experience with the GitHub API would be a major plus
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Skill level

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medium

+ +

Mentor

+

+Leaf Corcoran +

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+

A GUI front-end for LuaRocks

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Brief explanation

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+A cross-platform GUI desktop front-end for LuaRocks. It should allow users to +search for rocks, list installed rocks, install and remove them, view rock +details, etc. There are some options on portable Lua toolkits for developing +this front-end (WxLua, TekUI, QtLua, etc.) +

+ +

+A possible side-result of this project would be to define an API for +interfacing the LuaRocks backend. The LuaRocks backend is currently accessible +via the command-line tool, but an API is desired. By making a API wrapper around +the command-line tool, this project could provide good insights into a design +for an UI-agnostic API. +

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Knowledge prerequisites

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  • Lua
    • +
  • LuaRocks experience is a plus
    • +
  • some previous experience with UI APIs is preferred
    • +
+ +

Skill level

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easy/medium

+ +

Mentor

+

+Thijs Schreijer +

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+

Port LuaRocks to Typed Lua and make it a library

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Brief explanation

+ +

+LuaRocks is currently not a reentrant library. We would like to make usable as +a library, embeddable into applications. This would require a good deal of +refactoring, and encapsulating all state into a main instance object. Porting +the code base to Typed Lua would be a great opportunity to make the codebase +reentrant. Since Typed Lua generates plain Lua, it would not become a new +dependency for LuaRocks, but instead it would be used as a tool in the +refactoring process. +

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Knowledge prerequisites

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  • Lua
    • +
  • LuaRocks experience is recommended
    • +
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Skill level

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medium/hard

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Mentor

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+Hisham Muhammad +

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Auto-building distro packages

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Brief explanation

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+Making LuaRocks able to generate packages for Linux distributions. We could +have a build farm which builds all rocks for, say, Arch Linux, and then a +repository of binary rocks that can be installed with Pacman, similar to +ArchHaskell. +

+ +

Knowledge prerequisites

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  • Lua
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  • distro packaging
    • +
  • LuaRocks is a plus
    • +
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Skill level

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medium

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Mentor

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+Pierre Chapuis +

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Static build support for LuaRocks

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Brief explanation

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+LuaRocks currently builds Lua modules as dynamic libraries. The aim of this +project is to add support for building static libraries. The local manifest +format needs to be extended. Also, research if it would be possible to make +that work beyond the LuaRocks 'builtin' rockspec mode (including a possible +extension of the rockspec format). Another possibility is adding a command +that builds a custom interpreter bundling a set of rocks statically. Other +targets benefitting from static builds could be embedded systems: research how +to improve LuaRocks support for cross-compiling. +

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Knowledge prerequisites

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  • Lua
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  • LuaRocks experience is recommended
    • +
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Skill level

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medium

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Mentor

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+Daurnimator +

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