SoC

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.

Today, the SoC program official ends. I'm glad that I was able to make the first release of my project today. Last week has been an intensive week of testing (thanks to all my tester) and the weekend has even been more intensive with bug fixing and today I finally had time to write some documentation. So I think, most things are done.

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.

Guess I overestimated a bit the amount of time needed to make the necessary changes to the subscriptions module. A live demonstration is now up and running on my development site. Please create a new account and follow the instructions posted here to see IM notifications in action.

I've been spending most of the last week working on the project_usage.module. I got a copy of the usage data that's been reported to Drupal.org and spent some time fixing bugs (#167074) and making some small improvements (#167079, #167048). My big goal has been to get some code together to make the usage data visible (#165380). I've attached a few screen shots to show how it works.

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

We are getting closer to the official end of SoC, so it's time now to stop implementing new features and to to do a lot of testing and to fix bugs, so that I'm hopefully able to release a first version of the Taxonomy Manager by end of SoC.