[Soc-coordination] Call for Projects & Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2012
Ana Guerrero
ana at debian.org
Mon Feb 20 09:52:33 UTC 2012
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:14:31AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
[...]
>
> Okay, so I have tried to come up with a project description for [1].
> This is what I got so far (including "inline wiki markup"):
>
> <project>
> Create Lintian reports frontend
> ===============================
>
> The static package analysis tool, Lintian, is currently being run on
> all packages in Debian. It has a tool called "harness" to publish the
> results of its quality checks on lintian.debian.org.
>
> Currently, "harness" is an "internal" tool to generate these reports,
> but we believe it would be useful to Debian as well as its many derivatives
> to have a propper tool for generating these reports.
>
> The project will consist of two parts. Part 1 will be to create a
> black box test suite to test the current harness tool. Part 2 will be
> to rewrite "harness" into a proper tool.
>
>
> * Confirmed Mentor: Niels Thykier
> * How to contact the mentor:
> * mail: niels at thykier.net,
> * IRC nick: nthykier
> * Co-mentors: Any takers? :)
> * Deliverables of the project:
> * New automated harness test-suite
> * New harness frontend
> * Desirable skills:
> * Perl and POD
> * docbook (for the "User Manual")
> * Templates (such Text::Template or Template::Toolkit)
> * Black box testing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-box_testing)
> * Input sanitation.
> * Possibly some Make or some shell code (sh or bash).
> * Basic gnuplot knowledge (format of data files etc.)
> * What the student will learn:
> You will learn methods to reduce the workload when dealing massive
> data sets (via incremental runs). You will learn how to do black
> box testing on "non-trivial" black boxes.
> </project>
>
> Review welcome, co-mentor welcome, suggestions very welcome and typo
> fixes also welcome.
>
Quite good. Please add it in the wiki!
2 small things:
- add that the 2 parts are not supposed to take the same time.
- it is not fully clear what kind of fronted you want (web?)
Maybe the part about 'what the student will learn' part could be rewritten
a bit more attractively. However I admit I don't have a better suggestion :D
Ana
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