Google Summer Of Code
Welcome to the EiffelStudio's participation in the Google Summer of Code 2009. You will find below a list of project ideas for students who want to participate in the 2009 event. Students will be mentored by an experienced member of the Eiffel Software team.
If you have a suggestion, create a new page describing your project using this template and reference it below.
Warning: Google hasn't announced the list of accepted mentor organizations yet. So all this is under the assumption that Eiffel Software is accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2009.
What is the Google Summer of Code?
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.
Read the Google Summer of Code 2009 FAQ for more details about the program.
Benefit from choosing EiffelStudio's project
What can learning about eiffel teach folks? Why is eiffel a great thing to learn about? maybe expand it that way.
Our mentors
You will find the list of all mentors who will mentor one or several projects and that will also be used as backup in case something would happen to another mentor.
- Alexander Kogtenkov: Compiler, runtime
- Jocelyn Fiat: EiffelStudio debugger, libraries, web, runtime
- Ian King: EiffelVision2, Compiler, libraries
- Larry Liu: Docking, EiffelVision2, Testing, libraries
- Emmanuel Stapf: EiffelStudio, Compiler, runtime, libraries
- Paul Bates: EiffelStudio, libraries
- Ted Feng: EiffelStudio, Internationalization, runtime & exception
Projects
Builds
- EPI-BU-0001: Building PorterPackages for various platforms
- EPI-BU-0002: Building Linux packages
Compiler
- EPI-CO-0001: Save Eiffel Configuration File in a non-XML format
Libraries
- EPI-LI-0001: Better Unicode support
- EPI-LI-0002: String and file format encoding
- EPI-LI-0003: Encoding detection
- EPI-LI-0004: Library discovery
- EPI-LI-0005: Various kind of archives (TAR, GZIP, ZIP, ...) support
- EPI-LI-0006: Add support for more network protocols
EiffelStudio
- EPI-ES-0001: Integrate SCM support
- EPI-ES-0002: Update notification
- EPI-ES-0003: Easier internationalization
Tools
- EPI-TO-0001: Integration to SCons
