Re: [GSOC] Ideas?

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > We should probably discuss some ideas for Google Summer of Code this year. > I see people have already added few to the wiki page[1] which is great > and all but wikis aren't for discussions.. > > The plan as I see it: > Discuss ideas. Draft them up on the wiki. Move them to php.net/ideas > when they are solid enough. I don't really see a point to move them there. wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008 is just fine. One can create sub pages to complete a proposal. > New bugtracker for all the *.php.net projects (one-tracker-rules-them-all). What's up with Jani's work? > Random other ideas (most probably too small): > - openid extension I'm not sure it is a good idea to bring the relatively small API into an extension. The slow and complex part is already possible with openssl (Dmitry's patch). > - threaded run-tests.php and graphical stats > - mirror-test bot rewrite > - automatically run relevant tests on new commit (i.e commits to > ext/foo triggers test run for ext/foo/tests) > - daily/weekly buildfailure mails to internals@ (win/linux/solaris/bsd/mac/..) > - doxygen-to-phpdoc/docbook > - user-submitted-coverage to gcov Something like what is done with ctest (cmake's test tool) would rock. I can provide links if there is an interest (or see http://cmake.org) > - reST to html/docbook parser I somehow have doubts about reST now that we have a wiki. Too much formats will bring more confusions than really helping to write docs, specs or RFC. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org