SoC 2009
This group is for the Google Summer of Code, 2009.
Monster Media Sprint!
Fellow Media Moguls,
We're shaking off the dust from the Media module, which was sadly neglected during the heady Summer of Code, where we got Stream Wrappers into core! I'm excited to meet now with my fellow Drupalistas, and get the module presentable for Drupal 7 (and Drupal 6, if anyone is interested in helping on that front).
Turn it to 11: Drupal goes 19-for-18 in the Google Summer of Code
I'm at DrupalCon Paris right now, and between the amazing people, interesting sessions, and gorgeous City of Lights, I only have a few moments, but I wanted to make a quick (and exciting) announcement. The Google Summer of Code officially wrapped up last week, and the Drupal students and mentors did an amazing job this year. “How amazing?," you ask. Well, not only did all 18 of the students that worked directly with Drupal mentors successfully complete their projects, but we got an extra bonus successful student.
Recommender Bundle Final Update
Thanks to the support of GSoC'09, I was able to develop the Recommender Bundle for Drupal, which includes the following modules:
http://drupal.org/project/recommender
http://drupal.org/project/history_rec
http://drupal.org/project/fivestar_rec
http://drupal.org/project/voting_rec
http://drupal.org/project/uc_rec
http://drupal.org/project/similargroups
http://drupal.org/project/media_rec (not developed)
Rules Monkey: Update #8, the end!
This is the eighth and last update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. Summer of Code is over, time to do a summary:
- I worked on 13 issues in the Rules issue queue and on 2 in the Workflow issue queue.
- I created a new submodule of Rules: Rules forms support.
WU12: Version Control API and family changes
Here the last 3-weeks WU :-)
Now the details.
Less than one week to go!
Students and Mentors, the summer is drawing to a close, and you know what that means: time for your final evaluations.
According to the calendar Final Evaluations are to begin on August 17th, with those evaluations due by August 24th, so the time to wrap things up is NOW!
I'll be traveling until the 24th, so please e-mail me if you have any questions.
Thanks and good luck finishing up!
Rules Monkey: Update #7
This is the seventh update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. The progress we made last week:
- Rules has now some new icons in the admin area (including some other usability fixes)
- Patches are ready for two new Rules form support features: disabling elements and setting a default value
Rules Monkey: Update #6
This is the sixth update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. Many good news:
- Form support for Rules has been committed, have fun!
- Fago gave me CVS access to Rules, because I will be the Form support maintainer (I will try to not break Rules ;-)
- We did some research for new icons in Rules.
- I worked on some usability details, the corresponding issue also contains the new icons.
WU: Bot
Today I finished up the last strokes (to me at least) of the bot authentication, which I added to my sandbox repository. In the past few weeks I have struggled with making the simpletest of the bot working reliably, so we decided with Morbus to move ahead with the other submodules. (even tho, i figured there is another way to make this work, with either a CLI client, or using the PHP filesockets, will do this when i got some time).
WU9: Version Control API and family changes
Well, I miss one WU, but here the 2-weeks update :-D .. a little late :-p
Week 1: Making backend class abstraction work with git backend and planning interfaces again.
in the middle: lot of sdboyer interaction!
Week 2: Choose where to use interfaces and where inheritance can make the work better.
Now the details.
Rules Monkey: Update #5
This is the fifth update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. Implementation of the form support in Rules is on the way.
- The form support code is located in a sub-module of Rules
- Rules admins can activate/deactivate events on selected forms
- Form element IDs are made visible for the Rules admin on the selected form
- Currently there are 3 events: "form is being built", "form is validated" and "form is submitted"
- There is one condition to check a form element value
RDF for Solr: Possible improvements
The Apache Solr RDF module is now in a state, where it can already, theoretically, be used. However, there is much room for improvement, so I'd like to discuss some possible ways to do this.
Rules Monkey: Update #4
This is the fourth update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. A lot of progress has been made last week:
- Rules scheduler changes were committed to the official Rules CVS repository, yay!
- I wrote 3 tutorials to help people understand and use Rules scheduler
- I implemented an action to delete nodes, which was also committed
WU7: Version Control API and family changes
This week my mentors and me made a new plan to beat our targets, so you can see how it changes at my project wiki.
Well, this week I also divided it more less into the same sections :-D
Rules Monkey: Update #3
This is the third update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. The enhancements for the Rules Scheduler module are now finished and have been reviewed many times by my mentor and me. (see the issue for patches and details). They will be comitted to the official Rules CVS development branch in the next days.
How should Biblio module handle content types?
WU1: Google Analytics API -- what information do we want?
Alright, after much mucking about with licensing issues and contacting library owners and further code merging and committing, it looks like we are back on track. Late night hacking has resulted in the following features:
- An administration page where you can log into a Google Account via AuthSub
- A testing query page where you can see what data Analytics will send back
Recommender Bundles: Update
I've finished these things so far:
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WU6: Version Control API and family changes
I miss one WU again(:-( mainly because of final deadlines in my courses last week), but here are the news for both weeks.
It's divided in 3 sections: tests, stable branch and oop branch.
Midterms start on Monday, July 6th!
Students and Mentors, this is a reminder that SoC midterms start on Monday, July 6th. Luckily, I have a week off for that week, so I'll be checking in with each and every student to make sure everyone is doing ok. Please note that students need to be fully on the path to completing their SoC project, and they need approval from the mentor in order to receive their midterm check from Google.
Please leave a comment here if you have any questions, issues, etc. and GOOD LUCK!!!









