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Posted to dev@roller.apache.org by Vivien Barousse <ba...@gmail.com> on 2008/03/26 01:40:34 UTC
Roller Activities proposal for SoC
Hello everyone,
I'm Vivien Barousse, 19-years old student in computer science, and I
would like to join the Google Summer of Code for this year, and I found
the Roller Activities project
( http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008#roller-activities )
very interesting.
I wrote a draft of proposal today
( http://wiki.apache.org/general/VivienBarousse/GSoC2008/roller-activities-proposal ), and I would like to know what you're think about it. Do you think I should add/modify/delete something ? Are they part I should make more consistent ?
Thanks,
Vivien Barousse.
Re: Roller Activities proposal for SoC
Posted by Vivien Barousse <ba...@gmail.com>.
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:43 -0400, Dave wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Vivien Barousse
> <ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm Vivien Barousse, 19-years old student in computer science, and I
> > would like to join the Google Summer of Code for this year, and I found
> > the Roller Activities project
> > ( http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008#roller-activities )
> > very interesting.
> >
> > I wrote a draft of proposal today
> > ( http://wiki.apache.org/general/VivienBarousse/GSoC2008/roller-activities-proposal ), and I would like to know what you're think about it. Do you think I should add/modify/delete something ? Are they part I should make more consistent ?
>
> Hi Vivien,
>
> Thanks, that's a very good start; nice format and I'm happy to see you
> have included a schedule -- that's helpful. I also like the idea of
> integrating Twitter and other micro-blogging status messages too, but
> that is beyond the scope of what I originally proposed.
>
> I'm not sure if having a separate status/activities table makes sense
> or not. I think there are definitely some advantages to treating
> status like weblog entries. Anybody else on the dev list want to
> comment on that?
>
> - Dave
Hi Dave,
About the idea of integrating Twitter, I know this is beyond the scope
of what you originally proposed, but I think this can be a great
feature. This can eventually be an optional feature, to be implemented
if time allows at the end of the GSoC.
Vivien
Re: Roller Activities proposal for SoC
Posted by Dave <sn...@gmail.com>.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Vivien Barousse
<ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm Vivien Barousse, 19-years old student in computer science, and I
> would like to join the Google Summer of Code for this year, and I found
> the Roller Activities project
> ( http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008#roller-activities )
> very interesting.
>
> I wrote a draft of proposal today
> ( http://wiki.apache.org/general/VivienBarousse/GSoC2008/roller-activities-proposal ), and I would like to know what you're think about it. Do you think I should add/modify/delete something ? Are they part I should make more consistent ?
Hi Vivien,
Thanks, that's a very good start; nice format and I'm happy to see you
have included a schedule -- that's helpful. I also like the idea of
integrating Twitter and other micro-blogging status messages too, but
that is beyond the scope of what I originally proposed.
I'm not sure if having a separate status/activities table makes sense
or not. I think there are definitely some advantages to treating
status like weblog entries. Anybody else on the dev list want to
comment on that?
- Dave
Re: Roller Activities proposal for SoC
Posted by Vivien Barousse <ba...@gmail.com>.
Hi all,
According to Dyagilev's suggestions, I updated my proposal here :
http://wiki.apache.org/general/VivienBarousse/GSoC2008/roller-activities-proposal
I'd like to have some review on this new version.
Vivien Barousse
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 00:59 +0200, Dyagilev Aleksey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Dave <sn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Dyagilev Aleksey <ak...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi folk,
> > >
> > > I'm just one of guys who are interested in participating in Google
> > Summer of
> > > Code 2008.
> > > I've browsed this mailing list and found out that there are already
> > posted
> > > proposals in area that I'm interesting in (e.g. adding micro-blog
> > > functionality)
> > > Now I'm in research state:
> > > - getting familiar with code base to make estimation accurately
> > > - resolving list of features
> > > So, my question is - should I continue this research even the result
> > will be
> > > crossed with already existing proposals ?
> >
> > Yes, I think so. How are your ideas different from the Roller
> > Activities proposal?
> >
> >
> > > A quick note about me:
> > > I'm student in CS, more than year experience in commercial projects,
> > two
> > > successfully finished open-source projects, and experience with
> > frameworks
> > > that Roller is based on (Spring, Struts, JPA(Hibernate))
> >
> > Excellent. That should give you a good head start on understanding
> > Roller. However, we only use Spring for security, we're using Struts 2
> > and we're no longer using Hibernate.
> >
> > - Dave
> >
>
> Hi, Dave
>
>
> I agree with the core features that are described in "Roller Activities"
> proposal. As I mentioned above I've made research into micro-blogging
> services (Twitter, Jaiku, Dodgeball, etc),
>
> I took into consideration existing features of these services, user's
> feedbacks and their suggestions how to improve them.
>
> So, here is the list of advanced features that could be implemented:
>
> - Mark posts as favorite. Browse favorites, remove favorite.
>
> - Add rating system. The more followers you have the higher you are
> in rating. So, you can find people that are in top of rating. As far as they
> have a huge amount of followers I guess they could be interesting for you (
> e.g. Josh Bloch) Lists of your followers and following could be sorted in
> such order.
>
> - Add channels. Channels represent dedicated rooms with members who
> are connected, have general idea, interests. Users can join channels to be
> able to post there. Here is possible use case:
>
> You find Josh Bloch account by browsing public rating. After adding Josh to
> your following list you noticed his posts in "Java" channel. You decided to
> join this channel. Great, you've found members of this channel, who
> certainly could be potential following. In this channel you can share you
> ideas, find friends.
>
> - Circles. The first circle is your following (or followers), the
> second one is following of you following and so on. It's a well-known
> feature in social networks and in my opinion is very useful to find new and
> old friends.
>
>
Re: Roller Activities proposal for SoC
Posted by Dyagilev Aleksey <ak...@gmail.com>.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Dave <sn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Dyagilev Aleksey <ak...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi folk,
> >
> > I'm just one of guys who are interested in participating in Google
> Summer of
> > Code 2008.
> > I've browsed this mailing list and found out that there are already
> posted
> > proposals in area that I'm interesting in (e.g. adding micro-blog
> > functionality)
> > Now I'm in research state:
> > - getting familiar with code base to make estimation accurately
> > - resolving list of features
> > So, my question is - should I continue this research even the result
> will be
> > crossed with already existing proposals ?
>
> Yes, I think so. How are your ideas different from the Roller
> Activities proposal?
>
>
> > A quick note about me:
> > I'm student in CS, more than year experience in commercial projects,
> two
> > successfully finished open-source projects, and experience with
> frameworks
> > that Roller is based on (Spring, Struts, JPA(Hibernate))
>
> Excellent. That should give you a good head start on understanding
> Roller. However, we only use Spring for security, we're using Struts 2
> and we're no longer using Hibernate.
>
> - Dave
>
Hi, Dave
I agree with the core features that are described in "Roller Activities"
proposal. As I mentioned above I've made research into micro-blogging
services (Twitter, Jaiku, Dodgeball, etc),
I took into consideration existing features of these services, user's
feedbacks and their suggestions how to improve them.
So, here is the list of advanced features that could be implemented:
- Mark posts as favorite. Browse favorites, remove favorite.
- Add rating system. The more followers you have the higher you are
in rating. So, you can find people that are in top of rating. As far as they
have a huge amount of followers I guess they could be interesting for you (
e.g. Josh Bloch) Lists of your followers and following could be sorted in
such order.
- Add channels. Channels represent dedicated rooms with members who
are connected, have general idea, interests. Users can join channels to be
able to post there. Here is possible use case:
You find Josh Bloch account by browsing public rating. After adding Josh to
your following list you noticed his posts in "Java" channel. You decided to
join this channel. Great, you've found members of this channel, who
certainly could be potential following. In this channel you can share you
ideas, find friends.
- Circles. The first circle is your following (or followers), the
second one is following of you following and so on. It's a well-known
feature in social networks and in my opinion is very useful to find new and
old friends.
--
Aleksey
Re: Roller Activities proposal for SoC
Posted by Dave <sn...@gmail.com>.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Dyagilev Aleksey <ak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folk,
>
> I'm just one of guys who are interested in participating in Google Summer of
> Code 2008.
> I've browsed this mailing list and found out that there are already posted
> proposals in area that I'm interesting in (e.g. adding micro-blog
> functionality)
> Now I'm in research state:
> - getting familiar with code base to make estimation accurately
> - resolving list of features
> So, my question is - should I continue this research even the result will be
> crossed with already existing proposals ?
Yes, I think so. How are your ideas different from the Roller
Activities proposal?
> A quick note about me:
> I'm student in CS, more than year experience in commercial projects, two
> successfully finished open-source projects, and experience with frameworks
> that Roller is based on (Spring, Struts, JPA(Hibernate))
Excellent. That should give you a good head start on understanding
Roller. However, we only use Spring for security, we're using Struts 2
and we're no longer using Hibernate.
- Dave
Re: Roller Activities proposal for SoC
Posted by Dyagilev Aleksey <ak...@gmail.com>.
Hi folk,
I'm just one of guys who are interested in participating in Google Summer of
Code 2008.
I've browsed this mailing list and found out that there are already posted
proposals in area that I'm interesting in (e.g. adding micro-blog
functionality)
Now I'm in research state:
- getting familiar with code base to make estimation accurately
- resolving list of features
So, my question is - should I continue this research even the result will be
crossed with already existing proposals ?
A quick note about me:
I'm student in CS, more than year experience in commercial projects, two
successfully finished open-source projects, and experience with frameworks
that Roller is based on (Spring, Struts, JPA(Hibernate))
Thanks,
Oleksiy