Oh, thanks very much for your kind and detailed advice, Stefan. What you advised is very helpful and exciting for me, I will spend some time to digest them and try to prepare better before applying. Thanks very much!
Regards On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:59:09PM +0800, Yunal Li wrote: >> Hi, all. > > Hi! > >> GSOC 2012 was announced[1]. Could anybody tell me, whether >> SVN join this GSOC and which project ideas will be work on please? > > The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as a whole is taking part in GSOC. > Students wishing to work on Subversion must apply to the ASF. > > However, we should also make sure that there is someone in the > Subversion project who will review student applications this year > and mentor a student during GSOC. Else, applications for Subversion > made via the ASF will probably be disregarded. > > I would suggest starting a separate mailing-list thread asking > Subversion committers to consider registering as GSOC 2012 mentors. > >> As a student developing with SVN for several years, I would love to >> work on subversion for this GSOC. So far, I have set up the build >> environment on Ubuntu and "make install" successfully. These days I'm >> reading documents on http://subversion.apache.org to get more >> knowledge about development about SVN, and also read source code in >> subversion/tests/. However, in my opinion, subversion is a big system, >> I think maybe it's better to focus on one part related to the GSOC >> project idea. > > You can study the roadmap to get a high-level overview of things > that need to be done: http://subversion.apache.org/roadmap.html > If one of the planned features sparks your interest, you could ask > more specific questions about the topic on this list. Most of these > tasks are way too huge for a GSOC project. But it should always be > possible to carve out tasks that lie on the way towards a big new > feature but have the right size for a GSOC project. > > Here are some more ideas I found by searching the mailing list archives: > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-03/0576.shtml > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-03/0575.shtml > > This page is old and some items are out of date. But it is still > relevant: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/www/tasks.html?p=876756 > > You might find more ideas by searching for issues in the issue tracker > marked 'bite-sized': > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/buglist.cgi?component=subversion&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter2=1&issueidtype=include&issue_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=fulltext&long_desc=&long_desc_type=fulltext&issue_file_loc=&issue_file_loc_type=fulltext&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=fulltext&keywords=bite-sized&keywords_type=anytokens&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&order=Issue+Number&Submit+query=Submit+query > > I hope these links help you with finding a nice idea for a GSOC project. -- Yunal
