SoC 2007

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It's been a long time since I last posted an update on the state of the Version Control API, assuming we disregard short teasers on Planet Drupal. Since this last article, Version Control API nearly died during my attempts to wholly restructure the data model for practically everything involving commits, branches & tags (now unified as "labels") and repository items (= files and directories). Luckily, the story has come to a good end. Well, "end"? Depends.

Hi guys, I'm now in Sunnyvale, and feelin dizzy. Shared a shuttle ride from the airport to our hotel. Tomorrow na ang Summit and I can't wait to see Googleplex and meet the other SoC'ers.

Pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16822&l=b68eb&id=677221339
and here http://apophenicpinoy.multiply.com/photos/album/13/San_Francisco_Intl_Airport_to_Sunnyvale_CA

Seems I haven't given up on Version Control API & friends by now, which one could say is a good thing. Due to my rather silent nature, there haven't been as many g.d.o posts as during the Summer of Code (namely, none until now). Nevertheless a good share of remaining issues have been resolved, and missing features have been added. Here's a short rundown of what has been achieved since part 2 of my wrap-up, which was written a month ago.

Looks like the SoC session made the list, at the end of the first day. Woohoo!

Looking through the list of attendees, it looks like the following students will be there:
- Balazs Dianiska (snufkin) - Drawing API
- Matthias Hutterer (mh86) - Taxonomy Manager
- Gábor Hojtsy (Gábor Hojtsy) - Localization server
- Aron Novak (Aron Novak) - FeedAPI
- Jakob Petsovits (jpetso) - Version Control API
- Will White (diggersf) - SMS Framework

a) Is there anyone else coming who isn't on this list?
b) Is everyone who's coming cool with presenting their projects for about 5-10 minutes during the SoC session? (16:00 - 17:00 on Wed, Sept. 19)
c) Of those presenting, are there any special requirements that we should know about in advance? (you won't have a laptop, so need certain things prepared, there must be a purple emu standing in the back...). If so, can you please let me know what they are so I can do my best to make sure they're there?

@everyone else: I will try and demonstrate the rest of the projects with the remaining time. Last year, this meant i had about 8 minutes to present like 11 projects. ;) So if you would all be so kind as to make sure you have "demo" links available @ http://drupal.org/node/169104 and that they're working as of Sept. 18, that would allow me to show people your awesome work!!

Over the course of the summer my project has taken shape and become quite a full fledged search solution. This new search module allows for small typing errors, includes calls to pre-existing search module hooks such as nodeapi's 'update index' op, and includes an interface to allow external modules to modify node scoring.

If you already had a go at part 1, you have been waiting half a week for this one. Lack of internet, party intermezzos and my first company outing caused a minor delay, but here you are!

It's over! Google Summer of Code 2007 had its official "pencils down" on Monday, 19:00 UTC - which was 21:00 at my place, perfect for a last sprint... but I digress. According to Google, mentors are supposed to evaluate projects based on the state that they were in at that time. Which means it's time for me to wrap it up and explain what I achieved in those two or three months. In addition to these writings, I set up a test site at http://www.petsovits.at/versioncontrol/ where you can try out most of these things in action.

The wrap-up is becoming too long to conveniently fit into one single blog entry, so I'll split it up into two halves. This one basically covers the hard facts: which modules I wrote during the Summer of Code, what they do, and how they work. (Part 2 is now also available.)

Well today was the supposed deadline for the Google Summer of code project. I have uploaded what I have done at the moment for the supposed deadline to the CVS. You can visit my site and play around with it some, although there are a few bugs that still need to be worked out on it and a few features I will be adding that I didn't get to by the deadline today.