On Mar 18, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:

Hi Vincent,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
Hi Asiri,

I'm personally not in favor of having those 2 ideas done as GSOC
projects. My reasons:
* They are the most complex possible since they are at the very heart
of XWiki
* They need to be done by existing committers since this is at the
heart of xwiki and we'll need to support them on the long run
* They are NOT standalone projects and they interact too much with
other parts of XWiki.
* They have not had the experience of implementing the first
generation version and thus will not know the pitfalls and all the
ideas that have been raised on these topics over the years


I agree with your comments. Why i was interested in these ideas is because i wanted to get familiar with the XWiki core. I had doubts on integration issues that would come along these two projects, i guess i was correct :)

I feel reluctant to work on XEclipse since i had worked on it before and i think someone new should be doing it. So this leaves me with the JCR storage related topic, which i think would give me a good opportunity to understand the xwiki platform.

Actually no, you can propose other subjects too and I think there are also quite a lot out there no?
Like webdav, rest, xmlrpc, etc

I hope 'JCR storage & QueryPlugin' related idea does not fall into the same category as above :) (Please let me know if it does / not)

No they don't. 

On my side I haven't reviewed our GSOC list yet but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of projects around the core that we can find. Will try to have a look in a few days.

Thanks
-Vincent


So, see you people with a nice proposal in two weeks :)

Thanks.

- Asiri

ps : I'll start working on fixing http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BuildingInEclipse from tomorrow.


In essence this means that almost any line written will need to be
discussed at length, validated, understood by existing committers. I
don't think it's fair to give this to a GSOC student especially as
it'll be almost impossible for him/her to be sure of delivering
anything. Then it would mean several mentors and that they are 100%
available which is not going to happen. And last if they were I would
prefer that they tackle it themselves since again this is really at
XWiki's heart.

This is my opinion only and Segiu obviously has a different one since
he proposed these 2 projects. So first thing, we need to decide if we
want to have them a GSOC project.

What do other committers think?

Thanks
-Vincent

On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:

> Hi Vincent & All,
>
> This is about the above two GSoC ideas,
>
> I would like to know what are the deliverables for the above two
> projects ? My guess is,
>
> 1. Finished Components (i think these are going to be two jar
> files ?, i'm yet to discover plexus)
>
> 2. Test cases.
>
> 3. Current core integrated with the two components.
>
> 4. Anything else ?
>
> Since the current core doesn't follow a components based
> architecture, what kind of complications will arise in the
> integration phase ?
>
> Vincent, what about the two implementations of the data-model
> component in the sandbox ? have you made a decision ? :)
>
> Your help and comments are very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Asiri
>
>
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