Google Summer of Code

Pocoo (and all of its projects) is applying for GSoC 2009. This covers Jinja, Sphinx, Pygments, Werkzeug and Zine.

This page is more a source for inspiration rather then a list of fixed tasks. Please bring your own ideas. You definitely need to *talk to us* beforehand! Please also see the StudentApplicationTemplate.

The following list is incomplete. Feel free to extend :)

Zine Proposals

Notification System

Mentor: Christopher Denter

Zine needs an internal notification system plugins can extend.

Database Migrations

Mentor: Florian Apolloner

For software upgrades automatic database migrations have to exist. Currently we're not changing the schema because we don't have a framework to upgrade the schemas, database agnostic. Fortunately there is migration support for SQLAlchemy in a few packages, that could help here.

Bunch of Random Ideas / Buzzwords

• Support for multi-language usage (e.g., writing postings in multiple languages)
• General User Interface Overhaul
• Graphical Editor
• Plugin Database
  • Plugins on pypi
  • auto-update of plugins from pypi
• Atompub support
• Android (iPhone) client (see http://iphone.wordpress.org/)
• OpenID support
• ...

Jinja Proposals

Precompiling Templates

On Google Appengine it's impossible to use the bytecode cache because the required libraries are removed from the standard library. Ideally there would be a script that compiles the templates into ".py" files so that you can upload them on Appengine and Jinja looks them up in a .zip file or something.

Werkzeug Proposals

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Pygments Proposals

Lexer Guessing

Implement a way to guess the lexer based on the contents of a file, optionally with the aid of the filename or mimetype.

Sphinx Proposals

sphinx-web resurrection

Implement a web application (using other Pocoo libraries of course) that serves a Sphinx documentation project. It should enhance the statically served version in several respects, e.g. with a server-side search (e.g. using Xapian), a commenting facility and a way to suggest changes to pages.

PDF builder

Write a builder that directly generates PDFs using reportlab, on the base of rst2pdf.