Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce I've been selected to work on LibreOffice for this years GSOC!
I'll be working on implementing a Firebird SQL connector for Base in order to replace HSQLDB as the current default, which would allow for removing java as an LO dependency, allow for more unit-testing etc. (See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51780 ) The plan is to use Firebird 3 (which is currently an alpha release, i.e. stable API), since it provides a native C++ api and is considerably easier to embed than (the currently stable) Firebird 2.5, which only offers a C api. Work will probably be happening on feature/firebird which will be born as soon as I have the first bit of code ready to commit. The first portion of the project is implementing the actual database connector (and linking Firebird into the LO build system, based on how other external projects are handled), which should take roughly a month according to my estimated timeplan; after that I'll be getting onto more interesting things like looking at migration from HSQLDB, implementing tests and otherwise polishing things. I'll be blogging about my progress: you can either see all my LO related posts [ http://www.ahunt.org/category/libreoffice ] or just my GSOC 2013 posts [ http://www.ahunt.org/category/gsoc2013/ ] (the latter link isn't up yet). I'll probably also be keeping the mailing-list updated with my day to progress. (My IRC nick is ahunt.) If desired I can also post my GSOC proposal/timeplan here/on the wiki. (During the course of the summer I'll probably also be working on the Firefox OS port of the Impress Remote I implemented last year, which will be independent of the GSOC work I'm doing.) Some less exciting background information: I'm currently in the leadup to my exams which take place next week (I'll probably be internet-free that week), after that I'll be free to start full-time hacking on LibreOffice for the summer, although I'll try and get some work done on getting Firebird building in LO this week. I'm currently in the second year of Engineering at Cambridge University, and will probably specialise in Electrical/Information Engineering from next year onwards. I'll be based in Cambridge and in Switzerland during the course of the summer. Cheers, Andrzej _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
