[xwiki-devs] About GSoC 2008

[Vincent Massol]

See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_multiple_apps for a  
general answer.

Regarding XWiki  you'll need to give us your preference order.

Thanks
-Vincent

On Mar 4, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:

> Hi Vincent and all,
>
> I found several ideas on the ideas page to be very interesting.
>
> Is it possible for one student to apply for several ideas ? ( just  
> in case ) :)
>
> - Asiri
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net>  
> wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
>
>> Hi Vincent,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Vincent Massol  
>>> <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 1, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if this is the wrong place / time to ask this question.
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to know whether XWiki will participate in GSoC 2008.  
>>>> ( care to hint some project ideas ? )
>>>
>>> answer is yes!
>>>
>>> We all need to think about cool project ideas we want to achieve.  
>>> We could start by reviewing the leftovers from last year + add  
>>> some new ones.
>>>
>>> Do we have syntax highlighting in XEclipse ? I think this is one  
>>> of the leftovers. But I'm not sure whether itself alone be enough  
>>> for a summer project.
>>
>> No we don't have it AFAIK. However I don't think it's complex to do  
>> since there's a velocity editor plugin. It should simply be a  
>> matter of using it. As you say this sounds like something a bit too  
>> small. However if you have other large ideas that you could add  
>> with this, then it's worth proposing them on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/
>>
>> Once i thought it would be nice to have off-line rendering of pages  
>> (no need to be connected to view the results) in XEclipse (is this  
>> possible ?). But now I'm wondering if it's worth putting another  
>> GSoC project on XEclipse (?), since fabio seems to be doing a great  
>> great great job on XEclipse ....
>
> I think I agree with this too.
>
>> I personally would like to get familiar in core xwiki development  
>> (in contrast to add-on development), but i got no idea that would  
>> suite a summer project yet :(
>>
>> Hope you (core developers) will put up something cool (and  
>> challenging) soon :)
>
> Yep, we will, definitely. Stay tuned.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> - Asiri
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> - Asiri
>>>
>>>
>>> If anyone has cool ideas please send them on this list. I'll  
>>> organize a new space for collating them on xwiki.org in a few days.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
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