HTTP/1.1 -1 Read error in cache disk data: SuccessContent-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Last-Modified: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 04:40:26 GMT Content-length: 41969 Connection: Close Proxy-Connection: Close X-Cache: HIT from web1.osuosl.org Server: ProxyTrack 0.5 (HTTrack 3.49.2) = Google Code-In = This page lists detailed descriptions of tasks for [http://parrot.org Parrot Foundation] and [http://perlfoundation.org The Perl Foundation] Google Code-In 2010. '''1. What is Google Code-in?''' Following on from the success of the [http://code.google.com/soc Google Summer of Code™] program, Google is holding a contest for pre-university students (e.g., high school and secondary school students 13-18) called [http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html Google Code-In] with the aim of encouraging young people to participate in open source. We will work with open source organizations, each of whom will provide a list of tasks to be completed by student contestants. Tasks can be anything a project needs help with, from bug fixes to writing documentation to user experience research. '''2. What are the goals of this contest?''' Google Code-in (GCI) is intended to help students who may have wanted to get involved in open source but didn't know where to start. By working through the tasks suggested by organizations, contestants will be given the opportunity to engage with the open source community and get involved. The participating open source projects gain the benefit of additional contributions to their project, often in important areas that may get overlooked for whatever reason. It is Google's not so secret hope that the student contestants of today will be long-term contributors to these and other open source projects in the future. '''Task Categories''' Tasks will typically fall into the following categories: 1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code 2. Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents 3. Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing 4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality 5. Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions 6. Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more 7. Translation: Tasks related to localization 8. User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction == How to Write a Task == '''Please order the tasks in increasing difficulty, from 'easy', to 'medium', to 'difficult' ''' * Give it a descriptive title. * Explain any acronyms or slang that an outsider would not know. * List potential mentors and give both a recommended and an optional background. * Also give an estimate for roughly how long this task should take. * Provide as many links and background information as possible. == Task Template == Title: Name of the app/area and a short description of what the task entails Category: [see '''Task Categories''' above] Difficulty: (easy, medium, difficult) Estimated time: A "day" range of how long you think the task will take to complete. Task description: Consists of: * An initial sentence or two that describes what the task entails and why a student would want to spend their time on it (emphasize importance to project, transferable skills...). * Several sentences/bullets that provide more detail into the task: What approach should students use? What level of detail are you looking for? * A sentence about the expected deliverables. Benefits: A short explanation of why this task is useful for the project. This should help motivate the students too. Requirements: A small list of skill requirements. This helps the students know if they might be able to complete the task, for example e.g. Git, programming languages, etc. Extra: (optional) A description of some extra action that the student can do if he's enjoying the task. Links: A list of links that should help the student start on this task. Potential Mentor: The person we should list as the "owner" of the task, who will monitor student submissions and give the final sign-off. This should be either you or someone who you've talked to about taking this on. [http://live.gnome.org/GoogleCodeIn/HowToWriteAGoodTask GNOME's How To Write a Good Task] = Proposed tasks = == Task : Create a short video/screencast about how Perl 5, Perl 6 and Parrot VM are related == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Outreach '''Background''': Video/Graphics '''Details''': Perl 5, Perl 6 and Parrot Virtual Machines are all related communities, yet for people that have not been around to see them evolve, that is not self-evident. This task will be to create a roughly 5 minute video/screencast which gives a history of Perl 5, Perl 6 and Parrot and how they are inter-related. It can start with the release of Perl 1 in 1987, and should mention how Perl 6 and Parrot grew out of the Perl5 community. Some community members should be interviewed, so that first-hand accounts can be recorded. '''Links''': http://perl6.org http://perlfoundation.org http://parrot.org https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Perl_6#History '''Benefits''': Currently, there are only a few documents describing the history and evolution of these communities, and they are usually written from a very technical perspective. This task will create an introductory video describing the history of these communities that will be easy for newcomers to watch and understand. '''Time''': Roughly one week == Task : Create a Parrot Users Survey == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Outreach '''Background''': Survey writing '''Details''': Parrot would like a survey created, in the form of a Google Form connected to a spreadsheet, which we can send out to the parrot-dev and parrot-users maillings lists to see how people are using Parrot and what they use it for. This survey will be similar in the kind of questions that are asked as the "Git Survey". Questions such as "which version of Parrot do you use", "How long have you been using Parrot" and "Which parrot projects have you heard of or used" will be asked. '''Links''': https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2008 '''Benefits''': This survery will allow the Parrot community to learn more about itself and learn how to best provide what users and developers want. '''Time''': One day == Task : Create a Perl 6 T-Shirt == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Outreach '''Background''': Vector Graphics '''Details''': Perl 6 would like more really cool T-shirts so that Perl 6 developers and users can show their pride. The result needs to be modifiable in in an open source tool and be in a vector graphic format. Any of the current Perl 6 logos can be used as a starting point, or a totally new graphic can be created. '''Links''': http://perl6.org http://www.cafepress.com/rakudo https://github.com/perl6/mu/raw/master/misc/camelia.txt '''Benefits''': More T-shirts = More Awesome. As Google Summer of Code has shown, T-shirts motivate open source developers and make them happy :) '''Time''': Roughly one week == Task : Create a Parrot Virtual Machine T-Shirt == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Outreach '''Background''': Vector Graphics '''Details''': Parrot would like a really cool T-shirt so that Parrot developers and users can show their pride. The result needs to be modifiable in in an open source tool and be in a vector graphic format. Any of the current Parrot logos can be used as a starting point, or a totally new graphic can be created. '''Links''': http://parrot.org '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Parrot T-shirts. As Google Summer of Code has shown, T-shirts motivate open source developers and make them happy :) '''Time''': Roughly one week == Task : Create a PL/Parrot T-Shirt == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Outreach '''Background''': Vector Graphics '''Details''': PL/Parrot embeds the Parrot Virtual Machine in the PostgreSQL database. We would like a really cool T-shirt so that Parrot and Postgres developers and users can show their pride. The result needs to be modifiable in in an open source tool and be in a vector graphic format. Any of the current Parrot logos can be used as a starting point, or a totally new graphic can be created. '''Links''': http://pl.parrot.org '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any PL/Parrot or Parrot T-shirts. As Google Summer of Code has shown, T-shirts motivate open source developers and make them happy :) '''Time''': Roughly one week == Task : Compare and Contrast Google's Dalvik VM and Parrot VM == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Research '''Background''': Technical writing '''Details''': We would like a short paper (roughly 1000 words, with some charts/graphics) that compares and contrasts the Dalvik VM to Parrot VM, describing which characterists each shared, what things are different, how optimizations are done and which ideas Parrot can utilize from Dalvik. This paper should be in an open source format, and can take the form of a blog post or a POD file that can be included with the Parrot documentation or on the Parrot website. '''Links''': http://parrot.org https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dalvik_virtual_machine '''Benefits''': Not many people understand the different between the various virtual machines that exists. The document created in this task will increase the community knowledge about Parrot as well as Dalvik. '''Time''': A few days == Task : Compare and Contrast Neko VM and Parrot VM == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Research '''Background''': Technical writing '''Details''': We would like a short paper (roughly 1000 words, with some charts/graphics) that compares and contrasts the Neko VM to Parrot VM, describing which characterists each shared, what things are different, how optimizations are done and which ideas Parrot can utilize from Neko. This paper should be in an open source format, and can take the form of a blog post or a POD file that can be included with the Parrot documentation or on the Parrot website. '''Links''': http://parrot.org http://nekovm.org '''Benefits''': Not many people understand the different between the various virtual machines that exists. The document created in this task will increase the community knowledge about Parrot as well as Neko. '''Time''': A few days == Task : Translate parrot.org/download to Chinese == '''Potential Mentors''': jimmyZ '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Chinese, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Chinese speaker to translate our main website pages to Chinese. This task is to translate the download page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/download '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Parrot documentation in any Asian language. We hope that translating important documents to Chinese, as well as other Asian languages, allows Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev to Chinese == '''Potential Mentors''': jimmyZ '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Chinese, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Chinese speaker to translate our main website pages to Chinese. This task is to translate the "Developer Resources" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Parrot documentation in any Asian language. We hope that translating important documents to Chinese, as well as other Asian languages, allows Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/languages to Chinese == '''Potential Mentors''': jimmyZ '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Chinese, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Chinese speaker to translate our main website pages to Chinese. This task is to translate the "Languages" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/languages '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Parrot documentation in any Asian language. We hope that translating important documents to Chinese, as well as other Asian languages, allows Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev/docs/user to Chinese == '''Potential Mentors''': jimmyZ '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Chinese, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Chinese speaker to translate our main website pages to Chinese. This task is to translate the "Users/Docs" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev/docs/user '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Parrot documentation in any Asian language. We hope that translating important documents to Chinese, as well as other Asian languages, allows Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/foundation to Chinese == '''Potential Mentors''': jimmyZ '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Chinese, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Chinese speaker to translate our main website pages to Chinese. This task is to translate the "Foundation" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/foundation '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Parrot documentation in any Asian language. We hope that translating important documents to Chinese, as well as other Asian languages, allows Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/download to Spanish == '''Potential Mentors''': NotFound, jkeenan '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Spanish, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Spanish speaker to translate our main website pages to Spanish. This task is to translate the download page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/download '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Spanish-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Spanish, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev to Spanish == '''Potential Mentors''': NotFound, jkeenan '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Spanish, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Spanish speaker to translate our main website pages to Spanish. This task is to translate the "Developer Resources" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Spanish-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Spanish, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/languages to Spanish == '''Potential Mentors''': NotFound, jkeenan '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Spanish, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Spanish speaker to translate our main website pages to Spanish. This task is to translate the "Languages" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/languages '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Spanish-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Spanish, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev/docs/user to Spanish == '''Potential Mentors''': NotFound, jkeenan '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Spanish, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Spanish speaker to translate our main website pages to Spanish. This task is to translate the "Users/Docs" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev/docs/user '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Spanish-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Spanish, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/foundation to Spanish == '''Potential Mentors''': NotFound, jkeenan '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Spanish, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Spanish speaker to translate our main website pages to Spanish. This task is to translate the "Foundation" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/foundation '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Spanish-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Spanish, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/download to German == '''Potential Mentors''': moritz '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': German, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native German speaker to translate our main website pages to German. This task is to translate the download page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/download '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any German-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to German, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev to German == '''Potential Mentors''': moritz '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': German, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native German speaker to translate our main website pages to German. This task is to translate the "Developer Resources" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any German-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to German, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/languages to German == '''Potential Mentors''': moritz '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': German, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native German speaker to translate our main website pages to German. This task is to translate the "Languages" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/languages '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any German-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to German, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev/docs/user to German == '''Potential Mentors''': moritz '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': German, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native German speaker to translate our main website pages to German. This task is to translate the "Users/Docs" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev/docs/user '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any German-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to German, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/foundation to German == '''Potential Mentors''': moritz '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': German, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native German speaker to translate our main website pages to German. This task is to translate the "Foundation" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/foundation '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any German-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to German, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/download to Russian == '''Potential Mentors''': bacek '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Russian, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Russian speaker to translate our main website pages to Russian. This task is to translate the download page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/download '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Russian-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Russian, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev to Russian == '''Potential Mentors''': bacek '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Russian, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Russian speaker to translate our main website pages to Russian. This task is to translate the "Developer Resources" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Russian-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Russian, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/languages to Russian == '''Potential Mentors''': bacek '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Russian, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Russian speaker to translate our main website pages to Russian. This task is to translate the "Languages" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/languages '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Russian-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Russian, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev/docs/user to Russian == '''Potential Mentors''': bacek '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Russian, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Russian speaker to translate our main website pages to Russian. This task is to translate the "Users/Docs" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev/docs/user '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Russian-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Russian, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/foundation to Russian == '''Potential Mentors''': bacek '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Russian, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Russian speaker to translate our main website pages to Russian. This task is to translate the "Foundation" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/foundation '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Russian-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Russian, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/download to Hebrew == '''Potential Mentors''': szabgab '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Hebrew, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Hebrew speaker to translate our main website pages to Hebrew. This task is to translate the download page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/download '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Hebrew-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Hebrew, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev to Hebrew == '''Potential Mentors''': szabgab '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Hebrew, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Hebrew speaker to translate our main website pages to Hebrew. This task is to translate the "Developer Resources" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Hebrew-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Hebrew, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/languages to Hebrew == '''Potential Mentors''': szabgab '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Hebrew, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Hebrew speaker to translate our main website pages to Hebrew. This task is to translate the "Languages" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/languages '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Hebrew-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Hebrew, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/dev/docs/user to Hebrew == '''Potential Mentors''': szabgab '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Hebrew, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Hebrew speaker to translate our main website pages to Hebrew. This task is to translate the "Users/Docs" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/dev/docs/user '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Hebrew-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Hebrew, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Translate parrot.org/foundation to Hebrew == '''Potential Mentors''': szabgab '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Translation '''Background''': Hebrew, translation, Drupal '''Details''': Parrot would like a native Hebrew speaker to translate our main website pages to Hebrew. This task is to translate the "Foundation" page text. '''Links''': http://parrot.org/foundation '''Benefits''': Currently we do not have any Hebrew-language Parrot documentation. We hope that translating important documents to Hebrew, as well as other languages, will allow Parrot to reach more developers around the world. '''Time''': Roughly one week, depending on how much the student must learn how to translate new technical words. == Task : Create Snazzy Logo for Parrot on RTEMS == '''Potential Mentors''': '''Difficulty''': Easy '''Category''': Outreach '''Background''': Graphics '''Details''': Parrot Virtual Machine and the RTEMS project, which is a real-time embedded operating system, have been teaming up, so that Parrot can run on satellites and all kinds of other awesome real-time hardware. We need a logo for this project. It should represent the excitement of being able to use dynamic languages on real-time hardware. '''Benefits''': Parrot+RTEMS is a very exciting project, but it is hard to convey to other without a logo to catch their attention. This logo will draw in more people who are interested in Parrot and Real-Time Embedded systems. '''Links''': http://rtems.org == Task : Make parrot.org reflect current development and be more useful == Potential Mentors: ? Difficulty: Easy Background Required: Familiar with HTML, CSS, RSS ''Details'': The parrot.org main web site is currently not dynamic enough. It is hard to see what is going on in our community right now from our main entry page. This task will make usability improvements to our site such as: List the last few commits to our codebase, giving links to relevant mailing lists and irc channels (and logs), summarizing recent blog posts from Planet Parrot, etc. PLEASE ADD MORE DETAIL. == Task : Convert tests written in perl5 to pir - This would be multiple tasks == Potential Mentors: mikehh, ? Difficulty: Medium Background: Perl 5, readup on pir ''Details'': Some of our test files generate PIR (Parrot Intermediate Representation) files from within perl5 code. This also tends to generate a lot of files (that later have to be removed, when make clean/realclean is run). It would be better if these test files were written directly in PIR. Some progress has been made in this area but there is a lot left to be done. This would give the student a reasonable introduction to parrot and be useful in getting a lot of tests converted. A tutorial and examples would be provided. A possible (ungraded at the moment) list of tests that could be converted each of which could be a task: {{{ t/examples/dumper.t t/examples/streams.t t/examples/yaml_dumper.t t/op/basic.t t/op/calling.t t/op/exceptions.t t/op/exit.t t/op/interp.t t/op/lexivals.t t/op/say.t t/op/spawnw.t t/op/string_cclass.t t/op/string_cs.t t/op/stringu.t t/pmc/bignum.t t/pmc/config.t t/pmc/coroutine.t t/pmc/eval.t t/pmc/exporter.t t/pmc/filehandle.t t/pmc/globals.t t/pmc/io.t t/pmc/io_iterator.t t/pmc/io_status.t t/pmc/io_stdin.t t/pmc/iterator.t t/pmc/multidispatch.t t/pmc/nci.t t/pmc/object-meths.t t/pmc/object-mro.t t/pmc/orderedhash.t t/pmc/parrotio.t t/pmc/parrotobject.t t/pmc/pmc.t t/pmc/stringhandle.t t/pmc/sub.t t/pmc/sys.t t/pmc/task.t t/pmc/threads.t t/pmc/timer.t }}} == Task : Increase test coverage of PMCs - This represents several tasks. == Potential Mentors: cotto, ? Difficulty: Medium Background: familiarity with [http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/latest/html/docs/book/pir/ch01_introduction.pod.html PIR] and C, Perl 5 in some cases. ''Details'': Many of our [http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/latest/html/docs/user/pir/pmcs.pod.html PMCs] don't have complete test coverage. Although 100% coverage may not be possible in all cases, we can do better. We will provide a list of PMCs which need increased test coverage and notes about any PMCs which may provide difficulties in reaching 100%. A task will be complete when, at the mentor's discretion, a PMC's coverage is increased as much as is practical, ideally to 100%. This task requires the use of PIR, but increasing test coverage will usually require a small and easily-learned subset of PIR. PMCs according to test coverage: {{{ 29.4 multisub.pmc 37.1 socket.pmc 45.5 role.pmc 59.5 bignum.pmc 59.5 integer.pmc 66.7 sockaddr.pmc 67.9 eventhandler.pmc 71.1 undef.pmc 73.8 continuation.pmc 76.0 complex.pmc 76.9 bigint.pmc 77.0 capture.pmc 78.6 string.pmc 80.0 timer.pmc 80.2 orderedhash.pmc 80.3 hash.pmc 81.8 filehandle.pmc 82.3 sub.pmc 83.3 object.pmc 85.9 coroutine.pmc 87.8 callcontext.pmc 89.4 class.pmc 89.6 namespace.pmc 94.9 float.pmc 95.2 exceptionhandler.pmc 95.2 exception.pmc 95.3 exporter.pmc 96.3 fixedpmcarray.pmc }}} == Task : Increase test coverage of Math::Primality == Potential Mentors: bubaflub Difficulty: Medium Background: Perl 5, Prime numbers, Devel::Cover ''Details'': Math::Primality is a Perl 5 CPAN module that has advanced prime-checking algorithms. It was a GSoC project in 2009. Currently some new algorithms were added, but they don't have proper test coverage. Having better test coverage is necessary because people will rely on the correctness of the algorithms in this module for cryptography and number theory applications. This task will involve the student learning how to build and test Math::Primality, as well as analyzing the test coverage with the Devel::Cover CPAN module. When parts of the code are identified that need more tests, the students will work with the mentor to write tests that verify those parts of the code work correctly. Links: http://github.com/leto/math--primality http://search.cpan.org/~pjcj/Devel-Cover-0.73/lib/Devel/Cover.pm == Task : Increase Test Coverage for NumMatrix2D == '''Title''': Increase Test Coverage for NumMatrix2D '''Category''': Code '''Difficulty''': medium '''Estimated time''': 4 hours '''Task description''': Consists of: * Tests are an important part of verifying the behavior of software. The Parrot-Linear-Algebra (PLA) project has several tests to exercise it's core PMC types, but needs more to cover additional input cases, especially error conditions. * Tests are needed for basic arithmetic operations (addition and multiplication) and several methods calls (gemm, row operations, etc). * Tests should cover cases where input matrices have incorrect sizes, where the wrong types of PMCs are passed to operations and methods, and where invalid values are used * The user is expected to write approximately 15 new tests for the NumMatrix2D type to cover conditions that are not already tested '''Benefits''': PLA will benefit strongly from additional test coverage. Tests help to prove that the software works correctly, and prevent breakages when things are changed in the future. More tests help inform users about possible consequences to their own software when using PLA under certain conditions. '''Requirements''': Knowledge of programming (no specific languages), Linear algebra, access to a Linux system '''Links''': http://github.com/Whiteknight/parrot-linear-algebra '''Potential Mentor''': Whiteknight == Task : Create User Examples for NumMatrix2D == '''Title''': Create User Examples for NumMatrix2D '''Category''': Code '''Difficulty''': medium '''Estimated time''': 4 hours '''Task description''': Consists of: * Code examples are an important part of any documentation for software users. Parrot-Linear-Algebra (PLA) has several pages of documentation for it's developers, but little documentation for it's users. Creating code examples is the first step in creating comprehensive user documentation for PLA. * Examples are needed for complex operations not covered by existing methods. * Some good code examples that would be: Calculate determinants of 2x2 and 3x3 matrices, create identity matrices, dot and cross products of two vectors, calculating the norm of a matrix, calculating the trace of a matrix, etc. * The student is expected to write at least 5 good code examples, with accompanying documentation/descriptions for use in user documentation. * Code examples can be written in any language which runs on Parrot (PIR, NQP, Winxed, Rakudo Perl 6, etc) '''Benefits''': PLA will benefit strongly from the addition of more user documentation, especially code examples. These code examples will be displayed on a public website for users to read, and will help new users to get started with PLA much more quickly. '''Requirements''': Knowledge of programming (no specific languages), Linear algebra, access to a Linux system '''Links''': http://github.com/Whiteknight/parrot-linear-algebra, http://whiteknight.github.com/parrot-linear-algebra '''Potential Mentor''': Whiteknight == Task : Increase Test Coverage for ComplexMatrix2D == '''Title''': Increase Test Coverage for ComplexMatrix2D '''Category''': Code '''Difficulty''': hard '''Estimated time''': 6 hours '''Task description''': Consists of: * Tests are an important part of verifying the behavior of software. The Parrot-Linear-Algebra (PLA) project has several tests to exercise it's core PMC types, but needs more to cover additional input cases, especially error conditions. * Tests are needed for basic arithmetic operations (addition and multiplication) and several methods calls (gemm, row operations, conjugate, etc). * Tests should cover cases where input matrices have incorrect sizes, where the wrong types of PMCs are passed to operations and methods, and where invalid values are used * The user is expected to write approximately 15 new tests for the ComplexMatrix2D type to cover conditions that are not already tested '''Benefits''': PLA will benefit strongly from additional test coverage. Tests help to prove that the software works correctly, and prevent breakages when things are changed in the future. More tests help inform users about possible consequences to their own software when using PLA under certain conditions. '''Requirements''': Knowledge of programming (no specific languages), Linear algebra, Complex numbers, access to a Linux system '''Links''': http://github.com/Whiteknight/parrot-linear-algebra '''Potential Mentor''': Whiteknight == Task : Create a website for http://parrot.github.org == '''Title''': Create a website for http://parrot.github.org '''Category''': User Interface '''Difficulty''': easy '''Estimated time''': 4 hours '''Task description''': Consists of: * Parrot has a website at http://parrot.org. Github, where Parrot's source code repository will be, allows creating websites on its servers for users and organizations. The Parrot organization could use such a website to help direct new visitors to other resources. * The new website can be a simple, single-page site. It does not need to be fancy. * The new site should contain links to common Parrot resources including Parrot's home page, the issue tracker, the souce code repository, the mailing lists, and online documentation. '''Benefits''': Users going to htp://parrot.github.org will be able to find the resources they are looking for without getting lost or confused. '''Requirements''': Basic understanding of the web. Prior experience with markup languages (especially HTML/CSS, but also Markdown, Textile, or others would be fine). Ability to use Git a plus. '''Links''': http://www.parrot.org '''Potential Mentor''': Whiteknight == Task: Take a census of Parrot users == '''Title''': Take a census of Parrot users '''Category''': Outreach '''Difficulty''': easy '''Estimated time''': 8 hours '''Task description''': Consists of: * Parrot has a number of users working on several projects. These users are not always in regular contact with the Parrot developers, and Parrot developers aren't always aware of how the software is being used. * Search for and attempt to contact people who are using Parrot. This includes search for projects which may not already be listed * Compile a list of contacts * Find out the project status, and update the lists on the Parrot website '''Benefits''': Parrot developers are going to know how Parrot is being used, so they can focus their efforts accordingly. Parrot outreach teams will be able to stay in contact with users of the software to send news and receive feedback. '''Requirements''': Good communication skills '''Links''': http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Modules, http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Languages '''Potential Mentor''': Whiteknight l main function is broken. (closed: fixed)">#944 (Exception handling in top-level main function is broken.) closed by whiteknight
fixed: "unroll" has become "finalize", which is now the standard solution for …
15:58 Ticket #1455 (Exception 'birthtime' attribute not accessible) closed by whiteknight
fixed: this is fixed in master. I'm closing this ticket.