soc2008

Students!

This may be an opportunity to get involved with Drupal Community and work on some cool projects.

http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2008

Read more on Google Summer of Code at Google starts accepting Summer of Code application from 24th March i.e Monday!

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

My team can help in mentoring few students on your Drupal project. Gloscon will also reimburse to and fro Train fare (up to 4 times during the project) to students who want to come in person to our Ahmedabad office and discuss their project with anyone.

Gloscon Team

Xinc is an OpenSource continuous integration tool for PHP using PHPUnit Framework.

The idea is to
* create a module to manage the configuration of Xinc (currently on XML format) via Drupal.
* create detailed reports page view for Drupal.
* create overview / statistics page view and blocks view.
* integration with og project.
* integration with ng_workflow or actions.module - allows Xinc to invoke actions for success and failure status such as send emails, promote project to frontpage or add taxonomy terms (eg: add to "failing builds").

Following Yelvington I'm crossposting this to the following groups: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal and Search

One thing that would be really cool, is a module integrating http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ and Drupal. Our experience is that core search doesn't play nice when you have alot of nodes (we have 150.000+). Indexing simply kills the server.

So instead we use Sphinx. It's REALLY fast, both when searching and when indexing. BUT everytime we alter our content-types we have to manually reconfigure the sphinx configuration. This is why I propose this as a module for the SOC08 - a module that integrates Sphinxsearch and Drupal

This idea came out of a conversation Bevan and I were having at DrupalCon -- maybe it's crazy talk, but maybe it'll work.

Identify and isolate admin features; for example, creating forums, which currently requires a few steps, and knowledge of containers, etc. Analyze the workflow/mouse clicks required to build this functionality. Then, create a wireframe of the admin functionality that simplifies the task. Then, create a helper module that builds the streamlined, more intuitive UI