GSoC 2012 Ideas

Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

"All Hands" Tasks (good for beginners)

• port Lingua to run also on Python 3: https://github.com/wichert/lingua
• Create a site which showcases existing Pyramid/Pylons-powered websites.
• edit and reorganize cookbook at https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_cookbook
• Debug toolbar screencast
• Pyramid tutorial screencast
• Do a tutorial walk-thru and identify hard to follow parts and make fixes
• Add better docs about how Python packages relate to Python modules.
• SEO for Pyramid docs
• Content population for http://pyramid.opencomparison.org/
• some kind of interactive shell for pyramid kinda like http://try.redis-db.com/
• Figure out how to test Pyramid on Google App Engine beta (2.7)

Focused tasks (require specific knowledge or context)

• Add pyramid_simpleform-like capabilities to Deform.
• X-platform (Win/UNIX/py2/py3/pypy) session storage
• Make it easier to debug i18n problems
• Fix tox to cope with the ability to test distributions that have namespace package dependencies (e..g. "transaction").
• allow better extension support for debugtoolbar
• web-enabled interactive debugger ala pdb as toolbar extension (pie in sky)
• pretty up debugger toolbar
• add warning messages to old versions of documentation and link to latest release
• factor mako and chameleon templating bindings into external packages (Carlos and Reed did some of this at PyCon 2012).
• pycco style tutorial
• refactor zilch (use debugtoolbar exc collecting instead of weberror), and more flexible storage/result interface, more 'deployable-ready' with pyramid apps
• extensible pyramid dashboard app for apps needing an admin UI (error reporters, cache viewers, job runners, etc.)
• generate colander/deform schemas from sqlalchemy models (admin interface) https://github.com/Themanwithoutaplan/pyramid_debugtoolbar/wiki/Generate-colander-deform-schemas-from-sqlalchemy-models-(admin-interface)
• debugtoolbar bug fixing
• monitor ajax requests through debugtoolbar

Real-time web tasks

• Refactor pyramid_socketio to work with the latest gevent-socketio
• Unit tests to pyramid_socketio
• Selenium tests for the pyramid_socketio demos
• Tutorials and Screencasts with pyramid_socketio