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

[Michael D. <mi...@mi...>]

Yes, I am.

On Mar 9, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Glyn Matthews wrote:

> 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.
>> <dmb...@fr...>
>> +639287291459
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cpp...@li...
>>> [mailto:cpp...@li...] On
>>> Behalf Of Divye Kapoor
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:25 AM
>>> To: cpp...@li...
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the
>>> chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
>>> My official web site:
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