google summer of code

[Mark Doliner]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:43:13 -0700, Eoin Coffey wrote
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
> 
> > Eoin Coffey wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Luke Schierer <lschierer at tamos.net
> > > <mailto:lschierer at tamos.net>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I see that Google is starting to take applications from projects and
> > >     will soon be taking applications from students.  What sort of things
> > >     would we like to see in this year's projects?
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like to see Gobjectification as a SoC project.  I know its been
> > > said that that it would be too big for a SoC project, but if there was
> > > some way we could break it down a little bit into something
> > > accomplishable for the 3-4 months of SoC I think it would be a great way
> > > to get the ball rolling on this.  At least rolling faster then me
> > > playing with it and complaining in #guificiations :-P
> > >
> > > I have selfish reasons for this idea since it would make completing the
> > > monoloader a whole lot simpler and cleaner.
> > >
> > > By suggesting this I'm also implicitly volunteering to help out with
> > > it.  Not sure how comfortable devs would be with me mentoring though.
> > >
> > Perhaps a reasonable goal would be to push through a switch of just the
> > buddy list to gobjects or something similar, so that groups, buddies and
> > chats (in the blist) would be gobjects, but not (yet) conversations or
> > chats themselves, or the various other things we have.
> >
> > luke
> >
> >
> 
> Yeah something like that would be reasonable and doable I think. 
>  Mainly, from what I can gather with conversations with rekkarnyo 
> (did I get that right? this is the first time I've typed that nick 
> without tab-completion :-P) and grim there are two obstacles that 
> are making gobjectification a pain at the moment.
> 
> 1.) Modifying struct members directly instead of through api functions;
> we've already begun working on this (indeed this weekend I spent 
> some time playing with an idea to help fix it).
> 
> 2.) Hard to keep the gobjectification branch up to date with the mainline
> 
> But yeah.  Like I said I would like to see this go forward if there 
> is any students interested in implementing it.
> 
> I'll now keep quiet so as to not flood this thread with non-SoC info 
> :-P
> 
> -Eoin

There's a decent list of ideas at
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/FutureSOCProjects  We should expand that.

-Mark