Re: [ecf-dev] ecf-dev Digest, Vol 104, Issue 21

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ashu,

On 3/23/2014 6:23 AM, Ashu Rashid wrote:

Thanks Scott for your kind reply.

I have seen the discussion on ECF GSOC proposal by Sakith Indua. In any case, I would like to  contribute towards ECF later on because I'm very passionate towards it. Will this be possible?

Absolutely.   The way ECF works is that people that wish to contribute can just begin contributing...often through identifying and then fixing bugs, or adding to the documentation, then making code contributions.   Everything is in the open, so this is not as difficult as it might seem for a new contributor.   We can and will help you get oriented, find various resources, etc.   This list can always be used, but we can/will have individual meetings and/or conference calls if necessary and desired.

Then, after getting some experience contributing, if you wish to become an ECF committer the existing committers can/will nominate and vote to add you as a committer.   The existing committers will of course want to become familiar with your work, and through experience working with you know that your contributions are of high quality...as well as know that you are able to learn and use good open source/open project/open collaboration principals.  For your reference, here's [1] a EF document describing how the committer nomination and election process works.

But before all that, the important thing is for you to begin contributing...on something that you find appealing and interesting.  So the first thing to figure out is...what would you like to work on first?  (e.g. bugs, docs, certain parts/APIs within ECF, etc).  Feel free to ask questions about anything, of course, and we will try to help you figure this out.

Scott

Thanking you,

Ashu Rashid

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: GSoc 2014 (Scott Lewis)
   2. Proposal for GSoc 2014 (Ashu Rashid)


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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:14:41 -0700
From: Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ecf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ecf-dev] GSoc 2014
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Hi Ashu,

If you haven't already seen it, it might be useful for you to read this
thread [1]...as there has already been some discussion with another
prospective gsoc student (Sakith Indula) about opportunities for OSGi
remote services tooling possibilities for ECF...and the discussion might
give you some ideas.  If you want to discuss these further here, please
feel free...although I'm a little bit time limited over the next week.

I'm not sure if you have any knowledge or relationship with this other
GSOC student (I'm assuming not), but if you decide to make a proposal
for GSOC 14 I can tell you that for me personally (Scott)...although I
welcome all contributions for OSGi remote services tooling...I will only
be able to mentor 1 GSOC proposal (whether around OSGi tooling or
not).   This is due solely to my own time constraints.   Further, I will
evaluate the student proposals based upon a combination of several factors:
    a) how detailed and specific the proposal is about what will come
out of the GSOC work
    b) how much the proposal conveys that the student understands the
problem domain (e.g. OSGi remote services and tooling in this case)
    b) how much the proposal can convey that the project/student will
succeed in delivering sw that can ultimately become part of ECF

Of course I encourage other ECF committers becoming mentors, but I can't
speak for their availability for mentoring this year.    I would request
that they all speak up on this mailing list as soon as possible, so that
prospective GSOC students can know about your availability for project
proposals.

ECF has a long, successful history of GSOC projects, and it has been a
great source of innovation...as well as new committers. This is our
model for successful GSOC work...i.e. it is expected to be of sufficient
quality that it ultimately becomes part of ECF.   I would like to
continue this tradition, and so a successful GSOC proposal will not only
be expected to create high quality software for the GSOC project...but
also I would very much like to see the student ultimately see the work
through to contributing to ECF, and possibly becoming an ECF committer.

Best of luck to all students making GSOC 2014 proposals.    I'm very
hopeful that ECF can continue the excellent GSOC tradition discussed above.

Thanks,

Scott

[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/msg07000.html
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/msg06999.html

On 3/21/2014 3:23 AM, Ashu Rashid wrote:
> Dear All,
>      I am Ashraf Rashid, a final year Computer Science undergraduate
> and I am participating in the GSoc 2014. I am highly interested to
> work with the Eclipse community. I am longing to work on developing
> 'Tooling for creating, testing and deploying OSGi remote services'. I
> have a strong background knowledge in
> 1.Object Oriented  programming in Java
> 2.Java design patterns
> 3.Network programming in java
> 4.Interprocess communication in java
> 5.Eclipse plugins
> 6.Eclipse RCP
> and I also have a considerable amount of knowledge in OSGi services.
>
> Could anyone kindly help me and show me the right direction as to
> where should I start?
> Regards,
> Ashraf Rashid,
> Student(2010-2014)
>
>
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 06:49:40 +0530
From: Ashu Rashid <ashurshd1@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [ecf-dev] Proposal for GSoc 2014
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I have submitted a proposal for the idea "Tooling for OSGi services". I am
really very interested to work in this topic. Please do have a look at my
proposal and point me in the right direction as to where should I start
Regards,
Ashraf Haroon Rashid
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