Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Akshay Kumar <akshaykumar90 AT gmail.com>]

Hello.

I have gone through the perceived goals for this GSoC project on the ideas page. I looked around documentation and other relevant sources, and I wanted to discuss/make-sure-I-am-on-the-right-path a few points.

- We are basically giving an overhaul to the P6 framework underlying the CcPublisher application. This includes bumping up the version of python and wxpython to their latest stable builds.

- The p6.metadata functionality has to be replaced by the new and better liblicense for embedding tasks.

- Simplification of plugin model by stripping down ZCML registration, but otherwise the rest of the framework will still use ZCML for configuration (am I right?). Instead of ZCML, we can use something pythonic, more like what Django does for configuration. It uses simple python files. This will make the registration process simpler (hopefully).

I will be submitting a first draft of the proposal very soon. I just thought that I should mention some of the points worth discussing here. Looking forward for your feedback.

Akshay

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Akshay Kumar <akshaykumar90 AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am Akshay, an undergraduate from India, and I am interested in contributing to Creative Commons via Google Summer of Code 2010. I am quite interested in giving a new start to "CC Publisher". As far as I have checked, no one has mentioned about it on this mailing list as a GSoC project, so I think it will be ok for me to take it as a project.

As far as my technical skills are concerned, I have done a lot of work in C++, Java and Python. I have some experience in wxPython also. For version control, I know svn and have a working knowledge of git.

I would appreciate if someone can show me the next steps for this project. I would really love to be a part of Creative Commons organization.

-- Akshay Kumar