Summer of Code 2011/management/status

Last update on: 2011-08-31

2011-03-01
Sumana Harihareswara was hired as a contractor to help out with Google Summer of Code 2011 and the Berlin Developer meeting.

2011-04-01
Sumana Harihareswara sent a call for students for the upcoming summer of code. Developers are now signing up as students and mentors, and projects are being discussed. Read the dedicated article to learn more and join us.

2011-05-01
More than 25 proposals were submitted. Sumana Harihareswara announced the eight students and projects that were selected for this year's Google Summer of Code. The projects include interface improvements using AJAX, extension release management and work on Semantic MediaWiki. Students and mentors have now entered the "community bonding" period. (Read more.)

2011-06-01
In May, our eight Summer of Code students learned how MediaWiki works, as software and as a community. They checked out IRC and the mailing lists, talked with their mentors, asked for commit access, and started investigating the components that would include their project areas. On May 23rd, they started working on their projects full-time. WMF staffers and community members are mentoring the students, assisted by Sumana Harihareswara.

2011-07-01
Our eight Summer of Code students continued working on their projects full-time, and all are now committing code. Wikimedia employees and volunteer are mentoring the students, assisted by Sumana Harihareswara. They are preparing for their mid-term evaluations, to take place in mid-July.

2011-08-01
7 out of 8 students made it through the mid-term evaluation, and continue to work on their projects (read more).

2011-08-31
In August, the GSoC students finished their projects and students and mentors turned in their final evaluations; all seven remaining students passed. They are currently writing emails to the wikitech-l mailing list summarizing what they finished and what still needs to be done. For example, Salvatore Ingala wrote an integration HOWTO to guide other MediaWiki developers in merging his code into the main trunk. Also, students will upload representative tarballs of their code into the Google Code portfolio repository.