SoC 2007

Everyone should be ready to commit the final versions of their projects by 19:00 UTC Aug 20, 2007. So get in those last-minute questions to your mentors, canvas the community either here or on the devel list to do some final testing of your projects, and let's all work together to help make this the greatest SoC ever. :)

UPDATE (Aug 18, 2007) More information from Google.

Summary:
- Monday, August 20th at 19:00 UTC: "Pencils down," aka Summer of Code officially ends. Evaluations will be based on code submitted by this time.
- You must supply a copy of your code to Google: instructions
- You must complete a survey. If you don't, you will not be paid. (nor, equally importantly, do you get your t-shirt! ;))
- Friday, August 31st at 19:00 UTC: Final deadline for survey completion.

As I am entering the home stretch of the project I have gotten a small amount of feedback from various testers regarding my fuzzy search module but so far have gotten no feedback on how good the algorithm is at returning relevant results. I have just recently reworked my algorithm to tighten up the matching. I'd really appreciate it if I could get a person with a site that has over 400+ nodes or so to test out the module and see how fast it performs and how relevant they believe the results are.

Well things are wrapping up and I can happily report the public/private uploads are working (more or less)!

The end of the Google Summer of Code is nearing, and stuff is coming together in my version control modules. It seems to me like I'll not be achieving everything that I would have liked, but most of the important stuff is going to be ready next Monday. And now for a short report of the last one-and-a-half weeks.

How many SoC students are planning on being at FrOSCon? I know that Gábor and Balazs will be there. Who else can come?

I'll be presenting everyone's projects on Saturday (the 25th), and what I actually say or show will depend somewhat on you =) If you don't have a demo site online, please consider making one by then. If you provide me with materials to help present your work, I will use them. I will almost certainly stop short of installing and testing all 20 projects' code, simple due to time constraints, so your help in preparing materials and test/demo sites is needed.

This Friday I posted the third release of my library, which followed two days of public testing via the demo page. Unfortunately, very few people ran the demo and all of them were using gmail accounts, so really I didn't get any new information from that. Oh well... Today I updated the Drupal module to work with the latest library revision, documented the API, and created the server admin interface. After some testing tomorrow I'll commit all of this to Drupal CVS and make the first official release for my module. Following that, I expect to finish my patch for the subscriptions module either Thursday or Friday, which will give me two days to wrap up any loose ends before SoC final deadline.

-Max

Results:

• A release after the beta
• updated developer documentation (it changed a lot because of the concept changes)
• Screencast for users to make familiar with installing, setup and use the module

I have to admit, that i'm glad that the issue queue is full of feature requests, it seems that people want to use FeedAPI for various purposes. And yeah, their purposes are not impossible with FeedAPI (using the API, developers can write the proper modules)

Since I had completed most of the work a week back and responded to the bug reports and feature requests, I didn’t have much to do in the last two weeks.

However, I completed the documentation for the modules (readme files) and now I m working on the project report for the whole project and hoping to freeze code in the coming week after discussing with the mentor.

I encourage Drupal community to download and test the modules.
http://drupal.org/project/ulink

or they can test the module by creating new pages at

www.theebgar.phpnet.us/drupal

I have been continuing work on Views integration and I finally have all specified fields working. I ran into an issue where the bt_torrents table was playing nice with views, but when I tried to use fields from bt_torrents_files everything went screwy and all I would get is an error. This is no fun so I started looking at the code and everything appeared normal. That was my problem I stared at the screen looking for the problem, but it wasn't the kind that just jumps out at you.