Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Offer of help

[Glyn M. <gly...@gm...>]

That's a good suggestion.  Are you also willing to become a mentor?
Glyn

On 09/03/2008, Michael Dickey <mi...@mi...> wrote:
>
> I posted a GSoC proposal for the Pion Network Library (libpion) on the
> wiki Doug setup at:
>
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer_Of_Code_2008
>
> Maybe we can make part of this project merging code from the two projects
> together?
>
> Take care,
> -Mike
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Dean Michael C. Berris wrote:
>
> Hi Divye,
>
> Thanks for your expression of interest!
>
> The following things need to be done for the release of version 1.0:
>
> * HTTP 1.0/1.1 Client Implementation and Unit Tests
> * Documentation
> * Examples
>
> As far as HTTP 1.0/1.1 is concerned, much of the work that needs to be
> done has something to do with a better parser implementation than what's
> currently in there. There was some expression of interest from the
> libPion developers as far as incorporating the HTTP 1.1 parser they have
> implemented (incremental HTTP 1.1 parser implementation) to be
> incorporated/integrated into the library. This seems to be the more
> involved effort that neither I nor the libpion developers have enough
> time to be able to tackle.
>
> There are some other protocols that seem interesting to implement. One
> is XMPP and the other is ESMTP. These protocols won't be necessary for
> 1.0 release though, and the path is for 1.0 to be released then
> submitted for review as part of Boost.
>
> If you think you have time to take over the HTTP 1.0/1.1 client
> implementatons and re-use the message primitive already at the base of
> the library, that would be fine. Let me know what your sourceforge user
> ID is so that either I or Glyn can add you to the project.
>
> All kinds of help would be welcome.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --
> Dean Michael Berris
> Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> From: cpp...@li...
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> Behalf Of Divye Kapoor
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:25 AM
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> To: cpp...@li...
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> Subject: [cpp-netlib-devel] Offer of help
>
>
> Hello,
>
>   I am currently a second year student pursuing my B.Tech degree in
>
> Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
>
> and Glyn Matthews from the Boost devel list told me that this project
>
> was looking for contributors. I've had a look at the project source
>
> code and the mailing list archives and it seems that a lot of devel
>
> work is to be done. Can someone point out where the devel work stopped
>
> and whether completing a major portion of this library would be a
>
> suitable project for GSoC under the Boost banner?
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Divye Kapoor
>
>
>
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