GSOC Application
Link ID: eiffel
Group Name: Eiffel Software
Home Page URL: http://www.eiffel.com
Public Email: ...
Description
Why is your group applying to participate? What do you hope to gain by participating?
In April 2007, Eiffel Software announced that EiffelStudio will be open source. Almost two years after opening the source code to the community at large, there has been some major contribution to the tool such as the testing framework. Some others are still work in progress (SCOOP, schema evolution, proofs, ...)
Being an open source project, it makes sense for Eiffel Software to participate in the Google Summer of Code in order to get more contributors to the technology as well as gaining in visibility among the open source community.
What is the main public mailing list for your group?
Where is the main IRC channel for your group?
irc://irc.freenode.net/#eiffelstudio
What criteria do you use to select the members of your group?
Please be as specific as possible.
The most important conditions are:
- The person should be an expert object-oriented developer, with design/architecture as well as implementation skills.
- He or she should be thoroughly familiar with the architecture of EiffelStudio, and have contributed to it before.
- They should have some project management experience, and be used to working with students and young engineers.
- Finally, they must understand the purpose of the Google Summer of Code and agree with its objectives.
We have identified a group of such people who will be available as mentors. Some of them are at Eiffel Software. We also will rely on other experienced contributors to EiffelStudio, external to the company, who have expressed interest. Some are Eiffel programmers who contribute to the technology on their spare time. We will also have one or two people from the Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), which has extensive experience with Eiffel and has already made major contributions to EiffelStudio, in particular in the area of automated testing.
Has your group participated previously?
If so, please summarize your involvement and any past successes and failures.
If your group has not previously participated, have you applied in the past?
If so, for what sort of participation?
We applied last year. However we had not had the time to review the details of the Summer of Code program in depth and our application was judged not precise enough. After it was rejected we were able to discuss in detail with Google representatives what was missing in the application; we prepared the present one on the basis of that discussion, making sure we addressed the criticism received.
What license does your organization use?
Most of EiffelStudio uses the Gnu Public License, GPL v2.
Some libraries use the Eiffel Forum License, EFLv2. This is a very simple, liberal open-source license whose text is available here
What is the URL to the ideas list of your organization?
http://dev.eiffel.com/soc_2009
