summer of code

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.

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.

So public/private file handling has been progressing pretty well. I've still been having some trouble fixing uploads in HEAD and the changing code base has made this a challenge. However I've become much better at debugging and I'm quickly become a bazaar wizz. The project is still on target to be completed soon and the code should be operating properly quickly. For those interested in the progress you can use bazaar to check out the code from http://drupal.codeincarnate.com.

Much of last week I didn't have time to work on my summer of code project. I spent a lot of my time on the phone trying to find a house to live and people to live with for this coming fall semester at college (Which starts at the beginning of September). I also had to spend time on the phone to get my classes ironed out and financial aid. I also had to spend some time on a drupal project outside of my summer of code project due to my funds running a little short and bills being due. And I also had to due some phone interviews for job positions after my graduation this coming December.

Thanks for all of your support and ideas during development. I'm getting ready for one final sprint during the last week and I'd appreciate your feedback on the code. The latest revision is currently available in CVS.

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/smsframework/

This week, my Version Control SoC Project saw further completions of the API functions' implementations (the API itself is completely implemented now, if I'm not mistaken) and the creation of extendable admin screens, mainly for repositories for now. There's now a list of repositories separately for each version control system, and each backend can easily customize creation, editing and display of repository information by means of hook_form_alter() and a small number of more specific hooks. Repository management is now at the same level of functionality as the one in cvs.module, only that it's generic at the basics and other backends can without much effort provide their own custom stuff, just like CVS provides CVS modules and different methods of commit information retrieval. Sure, you want screenshots:

Well, files have been coming along well. Full working private/public upload and download functionality is nearly working and a alpha release for testing will be coming in the very near future. Most of the work left that remains is with file_set_private which is a very important function in the entire scheme of things. As always if you want to get the code bazaar can be used, just point it at http://drupal.codeincarnate.com. Things may be a little delayed because I'm turning 21 tomorrow. Bottoms up!