From 9f23c4a4f6d326463e50868017ad2fd10dda53d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathaniel Manista Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:22:32 +0000 Subject: Further improvements to Summer Of Code Ideas An introductory paragraph, addition of required skills and likely mentors, hyperlinks to other technologies, and copy edits. --- summerofcode/ideas.md | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'summerofcode') diff --git a/summerofcode/ideas.md b/summerofcode/ideas.md index b14d3f7b6a..4ccbe3b12f 100644 --- a/summerofcode/ideas.md +++ b/summerofcode/ideas.md @@ -1,22 +1,50 @@ # gRPC Summer of Code Project Ideas -C Core: +Hello students! -1. Port gRPC to one of (Free, Net, Open) BSD platforms and create packages for them. Add kqueue support in the process. -2. Fix gRPC C-core's URI parser. The current parser does not qualify as a standard parser according to [RFC3986]( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986). Write test suites to verify this and make changes necessary to make the URI parser compliant. -3. HPACK compression efficiency evaluation - Figure out how to benchmark gRPC's compression efficiency (both in terms of bytes on the wire and cpu cycles). Implement benchmarks. Potentially extend this to other standalone implementations -- Java and Go. +We want gRPC to be the universal protocol for all computing platforms and +paradigms, so while these are our ideas of what we think would make good +projects for the summer, we're eager to hear your ideas and proposals as well. +Try us out and get to know the gRPC code and team! + +**Required skills for all projects:** git version control, collaborative +software development on github.com, and software development in at least one +of gRPC's ten languages on at least one of Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. + +------------------------------------- + +gRPC C Core: + +1. Port gRPC to one of the major BSD platforms ([FreeBSD](https://freebsd.org), [NetBSD](https://netbsd.org), and [OpenBSD](https://openbsd.org)) and create packages for them. Add kqueue support in the process. + * **Required skills:** C programming language, BSD operating system. + * **Likely mentors:** [Craig Tiller](https://github.com/ctiller), [Nicolas Noble](https://github.com/nicolasnoble). +1. Fix gRPC C-core's URI parser. The current parser does not qualify as a standard parser according to [RFC3986]( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986). Write test suites to verify this and make changes necessary to make the URI parser compliant. + * **Required skills:** C programming language, HTTP standard compliance. + * **Likely mentors:** [Craig Tiller](https://github.com/ctiller). +1. HPACK compression efficiency evaluation - Figure out how to benchmark gRPC's compression efficiency (both in terms of bytes on the wire and cpu cycles). Implement benchmarks. Potentially extend this to other full-stack gRPC implementations (Java and Go). + * **Required skills:** C programming language, software performance benchmarking, potentially Java and Go. + * **Likely mentors:** [Craig Tiller](https://github.com/ctiller). gRPC Python: - 1. Evaluate the port of gRPC's Python implementation to PyPy. Investigate the state of [Cython support](http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/pypy.html) to do this or potentially explore cffi - 2. Develop and test Python 3.5 Support for gRPC. Make necessary changes to port gRPC and package it for supported platforms. +1. Port gRPC Python to [PyPy](http://pypy.org). Investigate the state of [Cython support](http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/pypy.html) to do this or potentially explore [cffi](https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/). + * **Required skills:** Python programming language, PyPy Python interpreter. + * **Likely mentors:** [Nathaniel Manista](https://github.com/nathanielmanistaatgoogle), [Masood Malekghassemi](https://github.com/soltanmm). +1. Develop and test Python 3.5 Support for gRPC. Make necessary changes to port gRPC and package it for supported platforms. + * **Required skills:** Python programming language, PyPy Python interpreter. + * **Likely mentors:** [Nathaniel Manista](https://github.com/nathanielmanistaatgoogle), [Masood Malekghassemi](https://github.com/soltanmm). gRPC Ruby/Java: -1. jRuby support for gRPC. Develop a jRuby wrapper for gRPC based on grpc-java and ensure that it is API compatible with the existing Ruby implementation and passes all tests. +1. [jRuby](http://jruby.org) support for gRPC. Develop a jRuby wrapper for gRPC based on grpc-java and ensure that it is API compatible with the existing Ruby implementation and passes all tests. + * **Required skills:** Java programming language, Ruby programming language. + * **Likely mentors:** [Michael Lumish](https://github.com/murgatroid99), [Eric Anderson](https://github.com/ejona86). -Other: +gRPC Wire Protocol: -1. Develop a Wireshark plugin for the gRPC protocol. Provide documentation and tutorials for this plugin. Bonus: consider set-up and use with the mobile clients. +1. Develop a [Wireshark](https://wireshark.org) plugin for the gRPC protocol. Provide documentation and tutorials for this plugin. + * **Bonus:** consider set-up and use with mobile clients. + * **Required skills:** Wireshark software. + * **Likely mentors:** [Nicolas Noble](https://github.com/nicolasnoble). -- cgit v1.2.3