SummerOfCode2006

Subject ID

cocoon-groovy-flow-engine

Title

Groovy Flow Engine for Cocoon

ASF Project

Apache Cocoon

Keywords

Cocoon, Groovy

Description

The project goal is to develop a Flow Engine that will interpret Groovy code. Currently we have Flow Engines interpreting Java and Javascript code. This project will allow cocoon users to take advantage of Groovy as programming languages.

Possible Mentors

Antonio Gallardo (antonio.at.apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

cocoon-cforms-xul-user-interface

Title

XUL based user interface for Cocoon forms

ASF Project

Apache Cocoon

Keywords

Cocoon, Cocoon Forms, widgets, XUL

Description

The project goal is to create a new user's interface rendering for cforms using Mozilla XUL. Currently cforms has only an interface for HTML. The user interface should be easily switchable HTML-XUL depending of the client browser.

Possible Mentors

Antonio Gallardo (antonio.at.apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

cocoon-automated-testing

Title

Automated testing of Cocoon releases

ASF Project

Apache Cocoon

Keywords

Cocoon, Testing, Ajax

Description

Identify parts of Cocoon that need more automated tests, and implement additional tests that can be used before Cocoon releases. One particular area that is not tested currently is the Ajax-based samples, for which the use of Selenium (http://www.openqa.org/selenium/) or a similar tool should be evaluated.

Possible Mentors

Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz.at.apache.org), Andrew Savory (asavory.at.apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

cocoon-osgi-jmx

Title

Use JMX to manage OSGi based Cocoon blocks

ASF Project

Apache Cocoon

Keywords

Cocoon, JMX, OSGi

Description

Cocoon developers are working on using OSGi as platform for Cocoon. We want to be able use JMX to configure, start and stop OSGi bundles and logging at runtime.

Possible Mentors

Reinhard Pötz (reinhard.a_t.apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

cocoon-crud

Title

Use Cocoon Forms for simple database CRUD operations

ASF Project

Apache Cocoon

Keywords

Cocoon, Cocoon Forms, CRUD, SQL, Spring, Javaflow

Description

We need a simple way of implementing CRUD operations (single table, lookup tables, 1:n relations) for database tables using Cocoon Forms and Javaflow. This should work based on naming conventions and database schema introspection and not on coding or extensive configuration. Additionally it should be possible to generate code as starting point for more advanced use cases.

Possible Mentors

Reinhard Pötz (reinhard.a_t.apache.org), Max Pfingsthorn (mpfingsthorn.at.apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

lenya-forrest-doco

Title

Help in enhancing existing doco prototype

ASF Project

Lenya Forrest

Keywords

generic documentation publication, content management system

Description

DOCO This publication is created with the aim to be a generic documentation publication. The current prototype is in the lenya and forrest rep.

Possible Mentors

Thorsten Scherler (thorsten at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

forrest-dispatcher

Title

Refactor the dispatcher as cocoon block

ASF Project

Forrest

Keywords

second generation skinning, unified output, multiple formats

Description

The dispatcher code, till now 2 different forrest plugins (internal and output), needs to be refactored to a cocoon block for better reusability in cocoon based appz

Possible Mentors

Thorsten Scherler (thorsten at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

cayenne-rop

Title

An application using Cayenne Remote Object Persistence technology

ASF Project

Cayenne (incubating)

Keywords

Cayenne, Java, Object Relational Mapping, Swing, IM

Description

A generally usable Java Swing client application(s) based on Remote Object Persistence technology. A working prototype of a real application is also acceptable. A few suggested directions: (a) general data management application; (b) a multiplayer Java game.

Possible Mentors

Andrus Adamchik (aadamchik at apache dot org)

Status

Possible Students: Marcel Gordon (mpg18 at uow dot edu dot au) - see the proposal

Subject ID

cayenne-ropwsdl

Title

A standard web service API for Cayenne Remote Object Persistence technology

ASF Project

Cayenne (incubating)

Keywords

Cayenne, Object Relational Mapping, Web Services

Description

Client/server communication in Cayenne Remote Object Persistence is currently based on Hessian binary protocol. We want to implement an alternative based on web services standards, with a WSDL definition of a service. It would be nice to support transactions, commit and rollback.

Possible Mentors

Andrus Adamchik (aadamchik at apache dot org)

Status

Possible Students: Michael Victorov (m_victorov at mail dot ru) - proposal

Subject ID

cayenne-search

Title

Support for full text search in Cayenne

ASF Project

Cayenne (incubating)

Keywords

Cayenne, Java, Object Relational Mapping, Full Text Search

Description

Integrating Cayenne with Lucene search engine. One possible way to do that is by writing a Cayenne plugin for the Compass search framework

Possible Mentors

Andrus Adamchik (aadamchik at apache dot org)

Status

Possible Students: Tomas Jucius (entirer at gmail dot com) - See the proposal, Priyadharsini Krishnakumar (Priyak11 at gmail dot com)

Subject ID

tomcat-clustersso

Title

Tomcat Clustering Support for SingleSignOn

ASF Project

Tomcat

Keywords

Tomcat, Clustering, SingleSignOn, Authentication

Description

Enhance Tomcat's clustering module to support SingleSignOn authentication. See also Bugzilla Issue 28039.

Possible Mentors

Yoav Shapira (yoavs at apache dot org), Filip Hanik (fhanik at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

httpd-mod-carp

Title

a module to implement the CARP protocol

ASF Project

HTTP Server

Keywords

C, Apache module

Description

The general idea is to implement CARP (Cache Array Routing Protocol) as a mod_proxy_balancer (or mod_cache) method, habilitating Apache (mod_proxy) to be integrated into a cache hierarchy. Apache would also be able to serve and parse a Proxy Array Membership Table. CARP uses hash-based routing to provide a deterministic "request resolution path" through an array of proxies. This means that for any given URL request, the proxy server will know exactly where in the proxy array the information will be stored. Also, the ProxyRemote directive would be extended to handle the balancer:// scheme.

Possible Mentors

-

Status

-

Subject ID

httpd-cache-test

Title

create a set of regression tests for mod_cache

ASF Project

HTTP Server

Keywords

Perl, Cache, Apache module

Description

httpd has a Perl-based regression test suite. However, it does not have any useful tests for caching. This project idea would be to come up with a set of scenarios that verifies the proper RFC-compliance behavior of the caching modules. If any failures are detected, identification and analysis of the problems are expected (but not necessarily patches). Time permitting, caching over reverse proxying would also be verified.

Possible Mentors

Justin Erenkrantz (jerenkrantz at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

httpd-mod-ircd

Title

a module to implement the IRC protocol

ASF Project

HTTP Server

Keywords

C, Apache module, IRCd

Description

Implement the IRC protocol in an Apache module in order to make Apache become a full-featured IRC server as well.

Possible Mentors

Ian Holsman (ian at holsman dot net)

Status

Possible students: Jan Sembera and Gary Sivek

Subject ID

tcl-rivet

Title

Help port Rivet to the Apache 2.0/2.2 API

ASF Project

Tcl

Keywords

Tcl, C, Apache module

Description

Rivet needs help moving to the Apache http 2.0 API, which involves a more or less complete rewrite of the code that talks to the web server.

Possible Mentors

David N. Welton (davidw at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

james-pojo

Title

Apache James architctural refactoring into James core, deployment API, and container specific deployments

ASF Project

James

Keywords

James, Email, Java, Architecture

Description

James needs to undergo an architectural refactoring to allow the core James components to be more flexibly deployed into a range of runtime containers, the first step on this road will be to define a deployment API and separate James core into James core POJO's and Avalon Phoenix deployment package. Further work could include writing a deployment package for a container of the students choice.

Possible Mentors

Danny Angus (danny at apache)

Status

-

Subject ID

bcel-jdk15

Title

Jakarta BCEL refactoring to support future JDK versions

ASF Project

BCEL

Keywords

Java, Byte Code Engineering, Library, Refactoring

Description

BCEL is currently lacking some forward development. In order to support JDK 1.5 and up BCEL needs some internal refactorings. The first step would be to define the areas that need to change and to define a roadmap. As a second step support for jdk 1.5 should be implemented.

Possible Mentors

Torsten Curdt (tcurdt at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

commons-jci-compilers

Title

Porting compiler code from maven to commons jci and writing an maven jci plugin

ASF Project

jakarta-commons-jci and maven

Keywords

Java, Compiler, Library, Porting

Description

Commons JCI currenly only supports eclipse, janino and groovy as compilers. The plan is to move the compiler code from maven to commons-jci. The next step would be to write a maven jci compiler plugin.

Possible Mentors

Torsten Curdt (tcurdt at apache dot org) and Brett Porter (brett at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

commons-javaflow-asm

Title

ASF Project

jakarta-commons-javaflow

Keywords

Java, Byte Code Engineering, Library, Stabelizing, Testcases

Description

Javaflow has still some limitations like handling try/catch/finally. The plan would be stabilize the new ASM implementation backed up through testcases and then dig deeper and fix some of the outstanding problems in the byte code instrumentation.

Possible Mentors

Torsten Curdt (tcurdt at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

apr-build-system

Title

Improve the APR build system

ASF Project

APR

Keywords

C, Python, Make, Visual Studio

Description

APR uses a custom build system written in python on Unix, which generates makefiles that are used to build the system, but it isn't used on Win32 and Netware. Those platforms maintain their own custom build systems, which is error prone because they need manual intervention when people add or reomve source files. This project would involve extending the APR build system to generate win32 dsp and vcproj, and potentially Netware makefiles. Time permitting, another interesting task would be allowing the system to generate makefiles on win32, so the build on windows could be run without the need for an IDE.

Possible Mentors

Garrett Rooney (rooneg at apache.org)

Status

Possible students - Walter Mundt

Subject ID

apr-logging

Title

Add basic logging capabilities to APR

ASF Project

APR

Keywords

C, Logging

Description

The systems APR supports have a number of different system-specific logging facilities (syslog on Unix, win32 event logging on windows, etc), but in order to make use of them APR applications currently have to write platform specific code. A useful addition to APR would be an API that abstracts away the differences between these logging systems, along with providing a fallback to writing to a simple log file. There has been interest in such an API expressed by the Subversion project for use in its svnserve program, and work in this area would likely include working with them to ensure that this API suits their needs.

Possible Mentors

Garrett Rooney (rooneg at apache.org) (Note from Yoav Shapira: I'd be happy to help with Logging Services coordination, if any is deemed worthwhile)

Status

Possible students - Walter Mundt

Subject ID

solr-mail-archive

Title

Build a Solr-based search engine for Apache's email archives

ASF Project

Solr

Keywords

Solr, Lucene, Search, Java, XML, HTTP, RSS

Description

Using the Solr search server, index the full Apache email archives, and index new messages as they arrive. Fields indexed would include mailing-list, sender, date, subject and contents. The search interface could be a form with text boxes for sender, subject and content, and perhaps pulldowns for mailing-list and date. Results could be sortable by any field. Optionally, faceted search by sender/month/mailing-list, etc. could be useful.

Possible Mentors

Doug Cutting (cutting at apache dot org) and Yonik Seeley (yonik at apache dot org)

Status

Marcel's proposal, Khuc Ngoc Vinh (knvinh at yahoo dot com)

Subject ID

forrest-openDocument-support

Title

Supporting OASIS-OpenDocument-Format in Apache Forrest

ASF Project

Forrest

Keywords

XML, XSL-T, Cocoon, Java

Description

Implementing a pair of Forrest plug-ins to fully support input from and output as OpenDocument text documents. Preserve (manual) pagination in the process so that paginated documents can be used as a source for repeated editing and fed back as input without loosing pagination. Extend the plug-ins to also support the other openDocument formats (Presentation, Spreadsheet, Drawing).

Possible Mentors

Ferdinand Soethe (ferdinand at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

logging-xml-configuration

Title

Common validatable XML logging configuration format

ASF Project

Logging Services

Keywords

XML, XML-Schema, Java, C++, C#

Description

log4j, log4cxx and log4net each support XML configuration files that are not adequately documented and can not be effectively validated before deployment. This project would develop XML Schema that could be used for validation, documentation, and guided editing and the corresponding configurators for log4j, log4cxx and log4net. Some initial work has been done in the logging services sandbox, see http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/sandbox/strictxml/STATUS.

Possible Mentors

Curt Arnold (carnold at apache dot org)

Status

Possible Students: Tomas Jucius (entirer at gmail dot com) - See the proposal

Subject ID

logging-documentation-system

Title

logging services documentation system

ASF Project

Logging Services

Keywords

XML, XSL-T, Java, Javadoc

Description

Design and implement a system that would allow log4j, log4cxx and log4net to share documentation of generic aspects and but would allow per-project notes or deviations. This should include both API documentation, FAQ and the project web resources. Could be applicable to other ASF projects that have implementations in multiple languages (for example, Xerces).

Possible Mentors

Curt Arnold (carnold at apache dot org), Yoav Shapira (yoavs at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

logging-log4j-management

Title

log4j management

ASF Project

Logging Services

Keywords

Java, JMX

Description

This project would design, implement, and document Java Management Extensions (JMX) agents for log4j.

Possible Mentors

Curt Arnold (carnold at apache dot org), Yoav Shapira (yoavs at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

logging-coverage

Title

log4j test coverage improvement

ASF Project

Logging Services

Keywords

Java, Junit, test driven development, code coverage

Description

A substantial fraction of the log4j code base is not exercised by unit tests and a project that would attempt to increase this to close to 100% would be very helpful in enabling refactoring of the code in future developments. The project should start by increasing coverage to near 100% for log4j 1.2.x, synchronize the log4j 1.3 test suite and then add tests for the log4j 1.3 code. Synchronizing log4cxx and log4j test suites would also be desirable.

Possible Mentors

Curt Arnold (carnold at apache dot org), Yoav Shapira (yoavs at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

maven-i18n

Title

Maven Internationalization

ASF Project

maven

Keywords

Java, internationalization, i18n, encoding

Description

Improve internationalization capabilities of Maven 2, Continuum and subprojects: site generation, web interfaces, command-line interfaces, errors,... Facilitate contribution of translations in different languages.

Possible Mentors

Carlos Sanchez (carlos at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

maven-tests

Title

Maven Automated Testing

ASF Project

maven

Keywords

Java, junit, test

Description

Improve Maven, Continuum and related projects automated test coverage (unit and integration tests) to make it as tested as possible and prevent future errors. Make use of automated code coverage analysis utilities (like Cobertura) to find untested parts and exercise them.

Possible Mentors

Carlos Sanchez (carlos at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

maven-dependency-graphing

Title

Maven Dependency Graphing Tool

ASF Project

maven

Keywords

Java, dependency, graph

Description

Using an existing graphing tool like Prefuse, make a graph of dependencies for any project, with all the dependencies and visualizing as much iformation as possible (transitive dependencies, excluded dependencies, version conflict resolution, ...).

Possible Mentors

Carlos Sanchez (carlos at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

continuum-eclipse-plugin

Title

Add Continuum management support in Eclipse

ASF Project

Maven

Keywords

Java, Eclipse, xml-rpc

Description

Design and implement an eclipse plugin that would manage projects in Continuum and would show project statuses and build results http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CONTINUUM-663

Possible Mentors

Emmanuel Venisse (evenisse at apache.org)

Status

Possible students: Rahul Thakur (rahul.thakur.xdev at gmail.com), Bruno J. M. Melo (bjmm at dsc.upe.br)

Subject ID

lucene-gdata-server

Title

Implement a Google Data API (GData) server using Lucene.

ASF Project

Lucene

Keywords

GData, Atom, RSS, Lucene, Java, Servlets, XML, REST

Description

The Google Data API (GData) extends Atom to present a simple, searchable database. A Lucene-based implementation could be provided as a Java .war file containing a few servlets.

Possible Mentors

Doug Cutting (cutting at apache dot org) and Yonik Seeley (yonik at apache dot org)

Status

Possible students: simonwillnauer at web.de (Proposal: SimonWillnauer/SummerOfCode2006 ), Todd Bealmear (Proposal: ToddBealmear/SummerOfCode2006), ChrisBennett (ChrisBennett/SummerOfCodeGdataProposal)

Subject ID

simplifying-configuration

Title

Simplifying Apache configuration

ASF Project

mod_redirect

Keywords

simpler configuration files, config, mod_redirect

Description

The goal of this project is to make it easier to configure Apache, especially for redirects such as redirecting example.com to www.example.com. If you ask 10 webmasters whats the trickiest technical thing to do, about 5-6 of them will say things like configuring a web server to do redirects, mod_rewrite, and setting up .htaccess. A light-weight project might be a program that takes simple input and outputs the correct configuration code that can be cut-and-pasted into Apache config files. A heavier-weight project might be directly changing Apache to allow simpler configuration. See http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/simplifying-apache-configuration/ for slightly more background.

Possible Mentors

Guidance: Matt Cutts (leave comment on the blog link from above). Technical specifics: Ian Holsman (ian at holsman dot net).

Status

Possible students: Dan Kahan (dan.kahan at gmail.com)

Subject ID

spamassassin-easy-mass-check

Title

Nightly Mass Check for Normal People

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

perl, email, corpora, distributed, community

Description

We need a way to make nightly mass check easily accessible to normal users. They need easy to use software to do mass checks and submit results. They must be properly trained on the sorting rules. Our project then needs some way of tracking the level of trust of these growing number of submitters. see http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SocNightlyMassCheck

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-httpd-spamd

Title

Finish up Apache::SpamD httpd module

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

apache, httpd, modules, perl, mod_perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4603 : Finish up and polish the Apache::SpamD httpd mod_perl module.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-separate-expiry

Title

Helper process for Bayes expiry

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

perl, bayes, spamd, processes

Description

Theo said: 'I also suggested having things like Bayes expiry and such being passed back to the parent who can spawn a helper process to do the work. That way the children processes will be able to accept, process, return the result, notify parent for bayes work, go back to listening. Right now we do: accept, process, do bayes work, return result, go back to listening, which ends up causing timeouts and possibly eats up all processing children.

Possible Mentors

Theo Van Dinter (felicity -at- apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-arf-plugin

Title

ARF plugin

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

arf, plugins, reporting, perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4812 : ARF is a spam-report format for feedback loops for ISPs; there's been some interest in SpamAssassin understanding this and being able to match metadata inside the messages being reported. (This task may be too short for SoC purposes, however.)

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-corpus

Title

Maintain a SpamAssassin corpus of messages

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

corpora, mail, collection, perl, community

Description

Theo said: 'I'd almost rather we shift this around and make a "SpamAssassin Corpora", have all of us focus on making that the best it can be, and use that for mass-checks, etc.' This could be a good possibility. Contributors can upload their own mail corpora to a central web app where the mass-check occurs. The mail collections could be quickly checked for validity, and tagged based on how much privacy the user wants for their mails (therefore controlling further redistribution of those mails). Related to 'spamassassin-easy-mass-check' above.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org), Theo Van Dinter (felicity-at- apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-rules-db

Title

Rules explanation database

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

rules, wiki, web, perl, community

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4771 - It'd be nice to have a way for users/admins/interested parties to have an easy way to look up a human-readable description of rules, based on the rule name; using the wiki as part of that would be the best solution.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-better-reload

Title

Better way to reload the spamd configuration

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

reload, spamd, sighup, restart, perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4774 : we currently have a very heavyweight configuration-rereading system where the entire process restarts. This is too heavyweight, and can be improved.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-message-test-suite

Title

a message-parser test suite

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

testing, testsuite, parsing, mail, perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4559 : Every now and again, we come up against bugs in our message parser (MIME, HTML, headers, base64/qp decoding, etc. etc.) We fix them, but occasionally there's regressions. I envisage it as using a vast collection of message files, something like a mass-check corpus, and a set of tests to ensure the parser sees what it should be seeing.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org), Theo Van Dinter (felicity-at- apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-improved-chi

Title

Implement 'Improved Chi' in the BAYES rules

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

bayes, classifiers, chi, statistics, perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3460 : _Handling Redundancy in Email Token Probabilities_, Gary Robinson. http://www.garyrobinson.net/2004/04/improved_chi.html . Has shown good results, reportedly. Implement in SpamAssassin and benchmark results using 10-fold cross-validation.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-spamd-unix-and-tcp

Title

spamd should support both UNIX domain and TCP sockets

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

spamd, unix-domain, sockets, networking, perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3991 : currently spamd supports either UNIX-domain or TCP/IP sockets for incoming scan requests. It should support both simultaneously, in the one set of daemon processes.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-dobly

Title

Benchmark and implement "Dobly" Noise Reduction

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

dobly, bayes, classifiers, perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3078 : investigate "Dobly" noise reduction a la http://bnr.nuclearelephant.com/ , in a form that can be incorporated into SpamAssassin. Benchmark results using 10-fold cross-validation.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-secure-user-auth

Title

Secure user authentication in the spamd protocol

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

spamd, protocol, tls, perl

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4550 : a secure method to authenticate users over a spamc/spamd connection.

Possible Mentors

Justin Mason (jm at jmason.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-distributed-mass-check

Title

Distributed mass-check

ASF Project

SpamAssassin

Keywords

corpora, perl

Description

mass-check currently makes use of a single system to process a number of messages. However, in larger organizations, or for people with multiple machines, it would be nice if multiple machines could all process a single mass-check run, preferably without needing to share the same filesystem, paths, etc. It would also be useful if we ended up with a single large corpus (see the spamassassin-corpus project above), so that multiple people could run the messages through over the Internet.

Possible Mentors

Theo Van Dinter (felicity -at- apache.org)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-persistent-db-conns

Title

Persistent database connections

ASF Project

SpamAssassin - http://SpamAssassin.apache.org/

Keywords

perl, databases, sql

Description

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=2037 : persistent database connections for SpamAssassin's Bayes subsystem. Michael: 'This exists, but is not an ASL friendly license. So a "clean room" implementation might be cool.'

Possible Mentors

Michael Parker (parkerm -at- pobox.com)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-quarantine-config-ui

Title

Quarantine / user-configuration web UI

ASF Project

SpamAssassin - http://SpamAssassin.apache.org/

Keywords

web, ui, quarantine, user-configuration, cgi, perl

Description

Create a web application for message quarantine or user configuration, as part of the SpamAssassin project.

Possible Mentors

Michael Parker (parkerm -at- pobox.com)

Status

-

Subject ID

spamassassin-mua-learner-plugins

Title

Thunderbird/Outlook/etc Plugins for Learning Messages via Spamd

ASF Project

SpamAssassin - http://SpamAssassin.apache.org/

Keywords

spamd, protocol, bayesian, perl, thunderbird, outlook, mua

Description

The spamd protocol is well defined and allows for learning/reporting of messages. What is currently lacking is the ability to learn/report those messages via popular mail applications (Thunderbird, Outlook, etc). Many of these applications have a well established API for creating add-on plugins that would allow for this type of activity.

Possible Mentors

Michael Parker (parkerm -at- pobox.com)

Status

-

Subject ID

cactus-M2

Title

Integration between Cactus and Maven 2 (M2)

ASF Project

Jakarta Cactus

Keywords

java JavaEE J2EE cactus maven plugin unit testing refactoring

Description

Create a Cactus plugin for M2 and also refactor Cactus internal structure so it can be built by M2(it currently uses Ant)

Possible Mentors

Felipe Leme (felipeal at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

cactus-portlets

Title

Add portlet (JSR-168) support to Cactus

ASF Project

Jakarta Cactus

Keywords

java cactus JSR-168 JCP portlets JavaEE J2EE

Description

This is a feature users always ask us for, but none of the current Cactus committers are familiar with Portlets. So, it would be nice if a student come with an idea on how to implement it (and of course, do the implementation

Possible Mentors

Felipe Leme (felipeal at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

mirae-core

Title

Integrate SAX and StAX into one Core

ASF Project

Mirae

Keywords

Java JavaME JSR-280 JSR-172 JCP XML SAX StAX

Description

Currently Mirae provides those two separate XML stream processing technologies. However, Java ME demands limited resource usage, so it would be nice to come up with one Core with two different XML APIs, Push style and Pull style.

Possible Mentors

Changshin Lee (ias at apache dot org)

Status

not accepted

Subject ID

mirae-dom

Title

Add DOM (JSR-280) support to Mirae

ASF Project

Mirae

Keywords

Java JavaME JSR-280 JCP XML DOM

Description

JSR-172 JAXP subset missed one feature, DOM. Now W3C defines the u(micro-)DOM for mobile platforms, so it would be nice to provide an implementation based on the spec.

Possible Mentors

Changshin Lee (ias at apache dot org)

Status

not accepted

Subject ID

mirae-transports

Title

Add multiple transport support to Mirae

ASF Project

Mirae

Keywords

Java JavaME JSR-172 JCP XML WebServices MMS

Description

While HTTP is the most common transport in web services, other transport protocols such as MMS and Bluetooth can be taken advantage of on mobile devices. This idea leads to implement support of various transport protocols available on Java ME and provide some practical samples on top of the implementation when you use the JAX-RPC subset of JSR 172.

Possible Mentors

Changshin Lee (ias at apache dot org)

Status

accepted, Anjana Fernando

Subject ID

xerces-stax-stream-reader

Title

Add support for the StAX (JSR-173) cursor API to Xerces-J

ASF Project

Apache Xerces Java

Keywords

Java, JAXP, StAX, XML, Xerces

Description

Work is underway in Xerces on an implementation of JAXP 1.4. The largest technical change in this new edition of JAXP is the addition of StAX (JSR-173) which introduces XML pull parsing APIs to the Java platform. In constrast to push parsing APIs like SAX, StAX gives control back to the application at each step in the parsing process. The goal of this project is to design and implement the cursor-based XMLStreamReader (and filtering support). It should be possible to accomplish this using XNI by building the XMLStreamReader on top of an XMLPullParserConfiguration.

Possible Mentors

Michael Glavassevich (mrglavas at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

xerces-stax-api-converters

Title

SAX to StAX and DOM to StAX converters

ASF Project

Apache Xerces Java

Keywords

DOM, Java, SAX, StAX, XML, Xerces

Description

Using an XMLInputFactory an XMLStreamReader can be constructed from a SAXSource or DOMSource. The goal here is to provide support for both of these sources, making it possible for applications to process the results of a SAX pipeline in a pull fashion and to incrementally walk a DOM tree through the XMLStreamReader interface.

Possible Mentors

Michael Glavassevich (mrglavas at apache dot org)

Status

Accepted proposal. Student: Hua Lei (hlnust at gmail dot com)

Subject ID

xerces-unicode-normalization

Title

Add support for Unicode character normalization and normalization checking

ASF Project

Apache Xerces Java

Keywords

DOM, Java, Unicode, XML, Xerces

Description

Design and implement support for Unicode character normalization and normalization checking to allow applications to produce fully normalized documents and verify that the documents they process are fully normalized. With an XML document which has been verified to be fully normalized an application can perform string comparisons without having to deal with the many possible forms (with the same meaning) allowed by Unicode. These features have been on the TODO list for several releases, but keep being deferred because none of the current Xerces committers are familiar with Unicode normalization forms, so it would be great to get someone with that knowledge (or interested in acquiring it) involved in the project.

Possible Mentors

Michael Glavassevich (mrglavas at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

Binary Serialization/Deserialization Support for AXIOM

Title

Binary Serialization/Deserialization Support for AXIOM

ASF Project

Apache WS-Commons AXIOM

Keywords

Axiom WS Binary DFDL

Description

There are various binary protocols defined today and some of them have already being implemented. Axiom is an XML object model from Apache WS project. The goal here is to integrate Axiom with binary protocol implementations to give it binary serialization and de-serialization support

Possible Mentors

Eran Chinthaka (chinthaka at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

fop-floats

Title

Implement before- and side-floats

ASF Project

Apache Fop

Keywords

XSL-FO, page layout, floating objects

Description

Implement the XSL-FO element fo:float in Fop. This element is used to generate two kinds of floats: before-floats for positioning objects in a separate area at the beginning of a page (typically for figures, tables, images), and side-floats for positioning objects on one side of the page, with normal content flowing around it. More details on the Fop wiki

Possible Mentors

Jeremias Märki (jeremias at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

fop-auto-table-layout

Title

Implement the auto table layout for Apache Fop

ASF Project

Apache Fop

Keywords

XSL-FO, page layout, layout engine, table

Description

Implement the auto table layout in Apache Fop. The project will start with a basic implementation that determines ideal column widths based on the inline element lists for the whole table. As a secondary goal, extensive changes will be made to the whole layout engine to enable first fit page breaking (in addition to the current total fit page breaking) in order to achieve an auto table layout implementation which recalculates optimum column widths for each page. More details on the Fop wiki

Possible Mentors

Jeremias Märki (jeremias at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

jackrabbit-jaas-authorization

Title

Implement JAAS authorization for Apache Jackrabbit

ASF Project

Apache Jackrabbit

Keywords

Jackrabbit, JCR, JSR 170, JAAS, access control, Java, content management

Description

Implement an AccessManager that uses Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) for authorization. In addition to the access manager, you will need to implement a set of Permissions that govern access to workspaces, nodes, and properties. The permissions should support levels of granularity (just the identified item, the node and its properties, the entire node subtree) and it should be possible to identify nodes in various ways (path, uuid, node type, namespace, etc.).

Possible Mentors

Jukka Zitting (jukka at apache dot org)

Status

Not accepted.

Subject ID

derby-jmx

Title

Add JMX to Apache Derby

ASF Project

Derby''

Keywords

Derby, Database, JMX, Java

Description

Currently Derby has no support for JMX. It would be good to start migrating Derby over to JMX. This can be done incrementally, starting first with simple things like "is it up" and "is it down" and slowly adding new properties that can be managed

Possible Mentors

David Van Couvering (davidvc at apache dot org)

Status

Subject ID

derby-mysql-migration

Title

Provide migration tool from MySQL to Derby

ASF Project

Derby

Keywords

Derby, Database, MySQL, Java

Description

We would like to make it easier for users to migrate from popular databases such as MySQL over to Derby. This project is to build a tool that guides and automates the process of migrating a database from MySQL to Derby

Possible Mentors

David Van Couvering (davidvc at apache dot org)

Status

Possible Students: Ramin Moazeni (moazeni at usc dot edu) - See the proposal

Subject ID

derby-psm

Title

Implement SQL/PSM in Derby through Java bytecode

ASF Project

Derby

Keywords

Derby, Database, Java, SQL, PSM, Bytecode, JDBC

Description

Add support for functions and procedures written in SQL by compiling them to server-side JDBC Java byte code and then executing them using the existing Java routine support. Functionality could then be extended to SQL/PSM with control statements

Possible Mentors

Dan Debrunner (djd at apache dot org)

Status

Subject ID

derby-cache-manager

Title

Implement an LRU-based cache manager for Derby

ASF Project

Derby

Keywords

Derby, Database, Java, Cache Manager

Description

Derby currently uses a clock algorithm to determine which pages to replace in its page cache. We have indications that this algorithm is far from optimal for some type of loads. Many other database systems use variants of an LRU-based algorithm, i.e. the pages that are least recently used will be candidates for replacement. For more information see http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/LRUCache.

Possible Mentors

Øystein Grøvlen (oystein.grovlen at sun dot com)

Status

Possible students - Karthik Thyagaraja (mailkarthikt at gmail.com).See Proposal http://wiki.apache.org/general/GSoC/proposal - Maryam Moazeni (mmoazeni at gmail.com).See Proposal http://wiki.apache.org/general/MaryamMoazeni/Derby/proposal

Subject ID

jdo-openjpa

Title

Apache JDO implementation using OpenJPA

ASF Project

Apache JDO

Keywords

jdo, persistence, java, openjpa

Description

This project will create an implementation of JDO from two Apache projects: JDO and OpenJPA. The JDO fostore sub-project implements the JDO API and stores the data into a btree-organized file system. The OpenJPA project (in incubation) implements the JSR-220 API and stores the data into a relational database. This proposal would integrate the FOStore front end with the OpenJPA back end, resulting in a JDO implementation that stores data into a relational database.

Possible Mentors

Craig Russell (clr at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

axis2-geronimo

Title

Integrated Axis2 to Geronimo

ASF Project

Apache Web Services, Apache Geronimo

Keywords

java, web services, axis2, soap, jsr 109

Description

Apache Axis2 is a new generation Web services stack written from the ground up. Geronimo currently uses Axis1 for its JSR109 support and the task of this project would be to take Axis2 and integrate into Geronimo. While its possible to integrate for JSR109 support only, a more general integration that does a deeper marriage of Axis2 and GBeans is ideal.

Possible Mentors

Sanjiva Weerawarana (sanjiva at apache dot org), Rajith Attapattu (rajith.attapattu at gmail dot com) or Srinath Perera (hemapani at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

jackrabbit-backup

Title

Backup tool for Jackrabbit content repositories

ASF Project

Apache Jackrabbit

Keywords

Jackrabbit, JCR, JSR 170, content management, backup, Java

Description

Implement a tool for backing up and restoring content in an Apache Jackrabbit content repository. In addition to the basic content hierarchies, the tool should be able to efficiently manage binary content, node version histories, custom node types, and namespace mappings. Incremental or selective backups would be a nice addition, but not strictly necessary.

Possible Mentors

Jukka Zitting (jukka at apache dot org)

Status

Accepted, with Nicolas Toper (application) as the student.

Subject ID

WSDL2C

Title

WSDL2C for Axis2/C

ASF Project

Apache Web Services

Keywords

C, Web Services, Axis2/C, WSDL

Description

Apache Axis2/C is the C based implementation of Axis2 architecture. Axis2/Java has a WSDL2Java tool. Axis2/C project would benefit from a similar tool written in C which does WSDL2/C. Basically the idea is to take a WSDL file and generate C code that uses the Axis2/C API to provide and consume services.

Possible Mentors

Ajith Ranabahu (ajith at apache dot org), Damitha Kumarage (damitha at apache dot org)

Status

Possible students: Dimuthu Gamage (dimuthuc at gmail.com) - . Project Proposal Project Progress

Subject ID

Axis2CActiveX

Title

ActiveX Component for IE to Access Web Services using Axis2/C

ASF Project

Apache Web Services

Keywords

Web Services, Axis2/C, ActiveX

Description

Apache Axis2/C is the C based implementation of Axis2 architecture. Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume web services. The objective of this project is to develop an ActiveX component to consume Web Services through Microsoft Internet explorer using Axis2/C as the web services engine.

Possible Mentors

Samisa Abeysinghe (samisa at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

Axis2CPerl

Title

Perl Axis2/C Extention

ASF Project

Apache Web Services

Keywords

Web Services, Axis2/C, Perl

Description

Apache Axis2/C is the C based implementation of Axis2 architecture. Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume web services. The objective of this project is to develop an extention for Perl, based on Axis2/C, to provide full scale Web Services support.

Possible Mentors

Samisa Abeysinghe (samisa at apache dot org), Nabeel Yoosuf (nabeel.yoosuf at gmail dot com)

Status

-

Subject ID

Axis2CMaven

Title

Maven Build for Axis2/C

ASF Project

Apache Web Services

Keywords

Web Services, Axis2/C, Maven

Description

Apache Axis2/C is the C based implementation of Axis2 architecture. Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume web services. The objective of this project is to provide Maven build system for Axis2/C. Currently Axis2/C project use GNU Make based build system

Possible Mentors

Damitha Kumarage (damitha at apache dot org), Sanjaya Ratnaweera (pini at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

Axis2Java

Title

Axis2 WSDL 2.0 support

ASF Project

Apache Web Services

Keywords

Web Services, Axis2/Java, WSDL 2.0

Description

Current implementation of Axis2/Java has support only for WSDL 1.1. Axis2 has enough flexibility to support WSDL 2.0. And this feature gives very good edge for Axis2

Possible Mentors

Deepal Jayasinghe (deepal at apache dot org), Eran Chinthaka (chinthaka at apache dot org)

Status

Possible students: Oshani Seneviratne (oshani at cse dot mrt dot ac lk). See the proposal

Subject ID

Axis 2 Databinding

Title

Complete databinding support for ADB (Axis Databinding)

ASF Project

Axis2

Keywords

Web Services, Axis2/Java, ADB

Description

ADB, the simple databinding framework for Axis2 is far from simple now. However it still lacks support for a set of schema constructs, most important ones being simple content extensions, simple content restrictions and complex content restrictions. Implementing such features makes ADB more useful and expands the usage patterns for Axis2

Possible Mentors

Ajith Ranabahu (ajith at apache dot org)

Status

Possible Students: Maryam Moazeni (mmoazeni at gmail dot com) - See the proposal

Subject ID

TuscanyExtensions

Title

Implement a new Tuscany extension

ASF Project

Tuscany

Keywords

Tuscany, Service Component Architecture (SCA), SOA

Description

Tuscany, one of the newest and most exciting projects currently under incubation at Apache, has a simple plugablity framework that makes it easy to contribute extensions to the SCA programming model. If you can code Java or C++ and have a little experience with some other language or communications technology then in this project you would write your own Tuscany extension to support that. The flexible nature of Tuscany means there is a lot scope to tailor the project to fit in with your particular skills - AJAX, Groovy, XML-RPC - whatever you can think of.

Possible Mentors

Ant Elder (antelder at apache dot org), Jeremy Boynes (jboynes at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

TuscanyDAS

Title

Create alternative Tsucany data access service implementations

ASF Project

Tuscany

Keywords

Tuscany, Service Data Objects(SDO), Data Access Services (DAS), SOA

Description

Tuscany SDO relies on DAS in order to read and update the in memory SDO data graph from/to persistent store. Some DAS implementations exist, in particular XML (for PHP, C++ and Java) and in some cases relational database(for PHP). New implementations could target different data resources such as flat file (CSV), Microsoft Excel, LDAP or could be driven by different schema languages such as RelaxNG.

Possible Mentors

Ant Elder (antelder at apache dot org), Caroline Maynard (cem at php dot net), Simon Laws (simonslaws at googlemail dot com), Kelvin Goodson (kelvingoodson at gmail dot com)

Status

-

Subject ID

MyFaces Partial Page Rendering

Title

Implement a best of breed partial page rendering solution for Apache MyFaces, evaluating the different approaches taken by ADF Faces, AJAX AnyWhere and Avatar

ASF Project

MyFaces

Keywords

MyFaces, AJAX, XML, JavaScript, HTML, HTTP

Description

MyFaces has several approaches for doing AJAX already aboard. Generally, they are still basic level though. We need someone to reevaluate the different ways of how AJAX is done today, and then to come up with a best of breed solution for an AJAX based framework in MyFaces for doing partial page update and for accustomating the needs of special AJAXified components in a general way.

Possible Mentors

Martin Marinschek (mmarinschek at apache dot org), Werner Punz (wpunz at apache dot org), Mario Ivankovits (imario at apache dot org), Matthias Wessendorf (matzew at apache dot org), Gerald Müllan (gmuellan at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

MyFaces Skinning

Title

Implement a best of breed skinning solution for Apache MyFaces, evaluating the different approaches taken by ADF Faces and Tobago

ASF Project

MyFaces

Keywords

MyFaces, XML, CSS, HTML

Description

MyFaces has several approaches for doing skinning already aboard. We want to merge those skinning solutions to come up with a best of breed solution, be it the Tobago way of doing skinning, or the ADF Faces CSS3 mode of doing skinning.

Possible Mentors

Martin Marinschek (mmarinschek at apache dot org), Werner Punz (wpunz at apache dot org), Mario Ivankovits (imario at apache dot org), Matthias Wessendorf (matzew at apache dot org), Gerald Müllan (gmuellan at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

MyFaces Partial State Saving

Title

Implement a partial state saving solution for Apache MyFaces

ASF Project

MyFaces

Keywords

MyFaces, XML, CSS, HTML

Description

For performance reasons, it might be good to only save a part of the state, instead of always saving the total state of the application. Implementing such a solution would bring MyFaces a major step forward.

Possible Mentors

Martin Marinschek (mmarinschek at apache dot org), Werner Punz (wpunz at apache dot org), Mario Ivankovits (imario at apache dot org), Matthias Wessendorf (matzew at apache dot org), Gerald Müllan (gmuellan at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

Code Generation for building MyFaces components

Title

Generating boiler plate code for a new component on pressing a button. Integrating existing code generation technologies with the new approach.

ASF Project

MyFaces

Keywords

MyFaces, Velocity, Ant, Code Generation

Description

There are two methods of generating code in use currently in the Apache MyFaces project. One is part of the ADF Faces subproject, one is part of the Tomahawk subproject. Evaluating both technologies, choosing the better way of handling this and integrating the new code generation technology with the existing components is the goal.

Possible Mentors

Martin Marinschek (mmarinschek at apache dot org), Werner Punz (wpunz at apache dot org), Mario Ivankovits (imario at apache dot org), Matthias Wessendorf (matzew at apache dot org), Gerald Müllan (gmuellan at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

axis2/java-c#

Title

Generate C# stubs using WSDL2Code in Axis2/Java

ASF Project

Web services

Keywords

Axis2, Java, C#, WSDL, iKVM

Description

Using iKVM, its possible to run Axis2/Java on a .Net platform. The objective of this project is to generate extend the WSDL2Code part of Axis2/Java to generate C# stubs that could be used to drive Axis2/Java+iKVM. The result is that Axis2/Java becomes a WS-* platform for the CLR as well.

Possible Mentors

Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ajith Ranabahu

Status

-

Subject ID

C2WSDL

Title

C2WSDL for Axis2/C

ASF Project

Apache Web Services

Keywords

C, Web Services, Axis2/C, WSDL

Description

Apache Axis2/C is the C based implementation of Axis2 architecture. Axis2/Java has the capability of generating WSDL interface based on the Java service interface. Axis2/C project would benefit from a similar tool written in C which generated WSDL based on the C service API. Basically the idea is to take a service interface of an Axis2/C service and and generate a WSDL to represent that service API.

Possible Mentors

Damitha Kumarage (damitha at apache dot org), Samisa Abeysinghe (samisa at apache dot org)

Status

Possible Students: Irfan Habib (irfan dot habib at niit dot edu dot pk)

Subject ID

CTCPMon

Title

TCPMon for Axis2/C

ASF Project

Apache Web Services

Keywords

C, Web Services, Axis2/C, TCP Monitor

Description

Apache Axis2/C is the C based implementation of Axis2 architecture. Axis2/Java has a tool named TCPMonitor to capture the SOAP messages sent and receieved. Axis2/C project would benefit from a similar tool written in C which would help capture messages. It would be sufficient to provide a command line interface, unlike the Java tool where it has a GUI. However, the C tool has to have the same level of functionality, including slow connection simulation

Possible Mentors

Samisa Abeysinghe (samisa at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

AXIOM-C14N

Title

Canonical XML Implementation on Apache AXIOM

ASF Project

Apache AXIOM

Keywords

C14N, StAX, AXIOM

Description

This project's objective is to implement Canonical XML spefication on Apache AXIOM, which is an XML Infoset compliant object model based on StAX.

Possible Mentors

Ruchith Fernando (ruchithf at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

Security Mediators

Title

Security Mediators for Synapse

ASF Project

[ http://incubator.apache.org/synapse/ Apache Synapse]

Keywords

<sign/> <verify/> <decrypt/> <encrypt/> <authenticate/>

Description

This project's objective is to implement Security mediators for Synapse using WSS4J and Axis2's rampart.mar.

Possible Mentors

Ruchith Fernando (ruchithf at apache dot org) Saminda Abeyruwan ( saminda at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

services-on-rails

Title

Web Services on Rails

ASF Project

Axis2

Keywords

Web Services, Ease-of-Use, Ruby on Rails, Simplicity, Defaults, Annotations, Build

Description

The idea is to use defaults, annotations, and make it as simple as possible to create, deploy and use a Web Service. By emulating the great Ruby on Rails project, we will make it really simple to create a service backed by a database, deployed in Axis2 and available via SOAP and REST/XML

Possible Mentors

Paul Fremantle (pzf at apache dot org)

Status

-

Subject ID

PPR-in-MyFaces

Title

Implementing Partial Page Rendering Support in Apache MyFaces

ASF Project

MyFaces

Keywords

JSF, MyFaces, PPR, Partial Page Rendering, AJAX, JSON, XML

Description

Implementing an architecture for providing partial page rendering support with AJAX for new and existing Apache MyFaces JSF components. This implementation will be based on the existing Apache MyFaces AJAX architecture and combine partial page rendering approaches from ADF Faces (Oracle) and AJAX anywhere (sourceforge.net) to find the optimal solution for Apache MyFaces. It would include enabling partial page rendering support for some of the existing Apache MyFaces components.

Possible Mentors

-

Status

-

Subject ID

PSS-in-MyFaces

Title

Implementing Partial State Saving in Apache MyFaces

ASF Project

MyFaces

Keywords

JSF, MyFaces, PSS, Partial State Saving, XML

Description

Implementing an architecture for providing partial state saving for new and existing Apache MyFaces JSF components. If only not static components are saved fewer memory is needed to save the actual state of the Website and if client side state saving is enabled, fewer bandwidth is needed to transfer this state to the client. This results in faster response times. The goal is to find and implement the optimal solution for Apache MyFaces.

Possible Mentors

-

Status

-

Subject ID

Apache James GUI frontend

Title

Desgin and implement a GUI frontend for the Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server

ASF Project

Apache James

Keywords

Apache James, Mail server, GUI frontend, Java

Description

Design and implement a long-awaited component of the Apache James system: a GUI front end. This application should provide a handy and nice tool to configure and perform most important issues of core mail server administration tasks we currently perform via some telnet interface.

Possible Mentors

-

Status

-

Subject ID

ant-gendocs

Title

generate automatically docs based on a bug report of Dominique Devienne

ASF Project

http://ant.apache.org/ ant

Keywords

java, XML, XSL, documentation

Description

find a systematic way of documenting ant's own tasks. use http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34116 as a base

Possible Mentors

Antoine Levy-Lambert antoine@gmx.de

Status

Likely assigned to Petar Tahchiev paranoiabla@gmail.com

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