GSOC2008: My First Contribution

On the first coding day (or I'd better say *night*) I was surfing Guvnor (former Drools BRMS) codebase. I've noticed some flaws in the code so I did some refactoring to achieve my first commit :) A cyclic dependency between org.drools.brms.server.contenthandler.ContentHandler and org.drools.brms.server.contenthandler.ContentManager was removed.

GSOC2008 Coding Period has Started!

Following the official Google Summer of Code 2008 calendar the coding for GSoC has officially started!

GSOC2008: A Gift Book From Google

Received the book today - Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.
Last year's book was Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, which is also available online at http://producingoss.com.


It looks like I have a book collection now! :)

GSOC2008 in Estonia

While the stats are published only for the Top 10 list at the Google Open Source Blog, it was interesting, how many mentors/developers from Estonia are participating in the program this year.
I have found 5: 2 mentors, and 3 students. The screenshots are below.

So the mentors are: Ahti for one cool Eclipse.org project.

.. and Mart Raudsepp for several Linux related projects like wxWidgets and Gentoo.

And the students are here:




A little country, and not many good universities, hence not many participants.