Re: Apache mentoring programme

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Hi Marcel,

The code awards list that Jaliya forwarded your mail to is an internal 
ASF list for managing our engagement with Google Summer of Code.

The public list for discussion of our mentoring programme is 
dev@community.apache.org, I've copied this mail to that list).

Our mentoring programme is not fully operational at this time, we intend 
to launch it once the Google Summer of Code is underway (a few months yet).

However, you can find out more information about the programme and how 
we imagine it will work at 
http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html

You'll see you've taken the first step already with this mail.

Take a look at the documentation and ask any further questions on the 
dev@community.apache.org mailing list (subscribe frist with a mail to 
dev-subscribe@community.apache.org

We're about to get very busy with student selection for GSoC, once the 
big rush is out of the way we'll come back to your case. In the meantime 
your best action is to get on the Axis mailing lists and discuss your 
project proposal with the team there.

Ross

On 08/04/2010 16:57, Jaliya Ekanayake wrote:
> Hi Marcel,
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>
>
> I forwarding your request to the code-awards mailing list.
>
>
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> Thanks,
> Jaliya
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>
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> From: Heusinger, Marcel [mailto:marcel.heusinger@uni-due.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:17 AM
> To: jekanaya@cs.indiana.edu
> Subject: Apache mentoring programme
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>
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> Dear Jaliya Ekanayake,
>
>
>
> As I don't know to whom I should send my request, I picked you from the
> Axis2 member list, hoping that you could help me or be so kind to forward my
> message to the appropriate Axis2 member. Thank you in advance!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcel Heusinger
>
>
>
> Dear Sir or Madame,
>
>
>
> some days ago I read about the Apache Mentoring Programme (
> <http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html>
> http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html) and I thought it would
> be a chance to contribute to one of the Apache projects. As I worked with
> Axis2 during the last few month, I wondered if one of the contributors would
> declare her-/himself ready to comply with mentoring me. As you can see below
> I already got some experiences in software development, so I feel confident
> to achieve the project idea outlined at the e-mail's end. Although mentoring
> causes some extra work, I think the proposed project is straightforward so
> that I could familiarize myself with the Axis2 project and make valuable
> contributions after the program in the form of patches and so on. Below you
> find some more about myself and my proposed Mentoring Programme idea. Thank
> you for your attention.
>
>
>
> A brief CV
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> ---------------------
>
> My name is Marcel Heusinger, 28 years old, finished my studies of
> information systems some month ago, and I live in Essen, Germany.
>
> Currently, I am working in my fourth year at the University of
> Duisburg-Essen (most of the time as part-time student assistant; the last
> five month as research assistant), where I worked on projects with Java and
> PHP. The source code of two of my projects can be found at
> <http://www.mycore.de/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/miless/trunk/module-blackboard/>
> http://www.mycore.de/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/miless/trunk/module-blackboard/
>
> and<http://www.mycore.de/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/miless/trunk/module-moodle/>
> http://www.mycore.de/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/miless/trunk/module-moodle/.
>
> Both of these projects integrated the Web service functionalities of the
> open-source documentation and publication server miless (
> <http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/>
> http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/) into the e-learning management
> systems Moodle and Blackboard respectively. At the moment I am working on a
> jBPM-based workflow application to support the library's processes.
>
> During all these projects I gained solid understanding of Web service
> standards like Xml Schemas, WSDL, and SOAP and I worked with tools like
> Eclipse, Ant, and Maven. Furthermore, I already had a quick flip through the
> Axis2 source code. So  the mentoring related extra work would narrow down to
> Axis2 implementation questions and how to integration my contribution into
> the total project structure.
>
>
>
> My project idea
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>
> Main idea: Generate JavaDoc documentation for client-side code/Web service
> proxy that was generated with Axis2. It would be much easier to work with
> generated proxies if its method would be documented.
>
> How it should be accomplished: As it is possible to annotate Xml schema
> files with an annotation element which itself could contain Dublin core
> elements. As these Dublin Core elements could be refined without
> jeopardizing applications that do not understand the refinement as long as
> they are able to understand the RDF-based refinement mechanism. This
> mechanism could be used to define a Dublin Core Application Profile (
> <http://dublincore.org/documents/profile-guidelines/>
> http://dublincore.org/documents/profile-guidelines/ and
>
>   <http://dublincore.org/documents/singapore-framework/>
> http://dublincore.org/documents/singapore-framework/) that could be used to
> create a mapping between the refined elements and JavaDoc tags.
>
> This application profile and the mapping could be used to add JavaDoc tags
> to the proxy code that is generated by Axis2, if the Xml schema uses the
> annotation element in conjunction with refined Dublin Core elements.
>
>
>
> As I am not that deep into Axis2 and its roadmap, and you think that idea
> would be useless or have any other plans, I would be happy to participate at
> the project anyway. Thank you!
>
>
>
> If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.=20
>
>
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> Looking forward to hear from you.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> Marcel Heusinger
>
>
>
>

Re: Apache mentoring programme

[ma...@uni-due.de]

> On 4/8/2010 3:11 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
>> Hi Marcel,
>>
>> However, you can find out more information about the programme and how
>> we imagine it will work at
>> http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html
>>
> I think also Marcel you should approach the Axis2 development community
> directly  with your idea http://ws.apache.org/axis2/mail-lists.html and
> try to find a mentor to either start mentoring you informally or if that
> mentor wants to participate in helping us get the formal program report
> back here and we can do something semi-formal like I have with  someone
> interested in the program with Derby.
>
Hello Kathey,
thanks for the reply. I subscribed to the Axis2 list and posted my
poposal. If I found a mentor and after we worked out the project details,
I will get back to you to take further action.

Thanks,
Marcel

Re: Apache mentoring programme

[Kathey Marsden <km...@sbcglobal.net>]

On 4/8/2010 3:11 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
> Hi Marcel,
>
> However, you can find out more information about the programme and how 
> we imagine it will work at 
> http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html
>
I think also Marcel you should approach the Axis2 development community 
directly  with your idea http://ws.apache.org/axis2/mail-lists.html and 
try to find a mentor to either start mentoring you informally or if that 
mentor wants to participate in helping us get the formal program report 
back here and we can do something semi-formal like I have with  someone 
interested in the program with Derby.