GSoC 2018 with coala
Introduction of Google Summer of Code.
What’s GSoC ?
GSoC is an annual program administered and funded by Google for students all around the world to contribute to open source software in summer. You may think that only undergrads are allowed to take part in this program, but that’s not the case. Undergrads, students in graduate programs, PhD candidates can take part in GSoC. As computer science or software engineering students GSoC one of the most prestigious things that students can accomplish.
Why open source ?
Open source software is the heart and soul of many organizations. It would be real hard to imagine more secure and reliable software without open source initiatives. Everyday hundreds and thousands of developers contribute to different open source software. Just to get an idea about how OSS contributes for entire software development industry, here’s a look at the statistics on different project on GitHub in 2017.
To celebrate your contributions and a spectacular year together, let’s look back at the projects, people, and teams of 2017.
GSoC 2018
via GSoC 2018 projects page
GSoC is based on a model of different organizations providing projects for students all around the world. Each organization assign mentors for every project and students are paired with mentors once they get selected.
I’m happy that I have been selected to work with coala for GSoC 2018.
About coala
coala is a free and open-source language independent code analysis tool, written in Python. The primary goal of coala is to make it easier for developers to create rules and standards to be followed in the source code.
coala provides a unified command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use. coala allows you to simply check your code against certain quality requirements. The checking routines are named Bears in coala. You can easily define a simple project file to check your project with all bears either shipped with coala or ones you found in the internet and trust.
You can use coala from within your favorite editor, integrate it with your CI, get the results as JSON, or customize it to your needs with its flexible configuration syntax.
What more ?
This is my first blog post about GSoC, many more will follow. Here I will post about the progress of my project along with some random posts about life or some tech tutorial. There are two reasons why I have started this blog. First I have been selected in GSoC and the program require writing blog. Secondly, I follow lots of blogs on various topics on Quora/Medium etc regularly so I always thought about writing a blog but never started one. So after my selection in GSoC, I started blogging with this one.
It is going to be a challenging task for sure. Hoping to have lots of fun and looking forward to learning many new things this summer with coala and plan to use this blog to post updates and developments. Feel free to contact me for any queries/questions regarding GSoC and I’ll be more than happy to answer them.
Thats all folks ! Stay tuned.