summer of code 2011

Short description

The Version Control API allows development-specific modules to interface with the server side of version control systems. We currently still lack the ability to really see what’s going on with a repository.

An activity stream is an overview of all actions in a system that are interesting to a user from his or her perspective.

This project includes a complementary module to the Version Control API that logs every change to every repository, displaying them and processing statistics about them.

I'm in my second bachelor year at the University of Antwerp studying Computer Science. I have a very strong interest for programming and web development and I've also had my share of Drupal-related coding.

Experiences

I've received excellent grades on all my programming classes at University and am familiar with modern web standards and practices. Over the years I worked a lot with PHP and C ++ and am also quite familiar with javascript (JQuery in particular). I am willing to learn other programming languages if needed (which I doubt is necessary for Drupal).

As some of you might know, in last year's GSoC I created the Search API module, which has already gained some fame since then. It's a highly flexible search solution for Drupal 7, already coming with support for Views and facetted searches out-of-the-box, amongst other things.
Still, like all software, it isn't perfect and there are still a number of known shortcomings, as well as other potential for improvement. So for this Google Summer of Code, I propose to fix some of these shortcomings, and add some additional features.
The tasks I'd have in mind are the following (in order of importance):

• Add autocompletion feature
• Provide ways to index other data than entities
• Add a "More like this" feature
• Add hierarchical facets for taxonomy terms
• Add additional little multi-language features
• Extend test coverage
• Extend documentation

The last two are of course the buffers for any remaining time at the end — even when I'm done with the others, there will always be numerous ways to improve tests and documentation.