GSoC Posts

What is GSoC? Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an online, international program designed to encourage university student participation in open source software development. Students work for an open source software organization, and earn a stipend for successfully completing the project. If you want to know more about GSoC, click  here . How it all started? I joined a student club called  FOSS@AMRITA  in Amrita University , where a group of students work on various open source projects helping each other. I got to know about GSoC from the club itself, most of the previous year GSoC students from our college were members of the club. I was motivated by seeing them and started learning coding, staying in the lab after my college hours. Why I was attracted to GSoC is for real world experience, to prove myself that I can do something and for swag, stipend too. Why coala? Choosing an organization from previous year GSoC orgs was a hard one. Initially, I chose  Joomla  a

Coding Phase 3 Last phase of GSoC period is completed. In this phase, I finished all the work which was pending in the previous phases. Week 3: I implemented squash command in GitMate, to squash all commits in a pull request into a single commit with defined commit message. This feature was supposed to implemented in the first phase, but there were some issues when giving multi line commit message and when there is merge commit, so I implemented a command to squash last 'n' number of commits instead of squashing given set of commits. Also, my cEP got merged, after many amendments. Week 4: I worked on adding assign request command which assigns and unassigns an issue to a user who requests for assignment or unassignment. Also, a user must satisfy all the eligibility conditions to get assigned to the issue. This one involved with writing many test cases. Check my pull request here . I started working on merging all pull request review plugins into