[maemo-developers] Liqbase GSoC Proposal Rought Draft.

[From: Zach Habersang]

Here is a rough draft of my Google Summer of Code liqbase proposal. Please
feel free to comment, recommend additions or subtractions, or just let me
know what you think! I took out the biography information for personal
reasons.

Thanks, Zach

Liqbase Framework Development and Application Implementation
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Project Abstraction:
Assist in the development of the liqbase framework, and apply the liqbase
framework as a UI for an interactive network/system monitoring tool.

Project Full Description:
Liqbase is a highly innovative idea and project built initially for the
Maemo platform, it is touch based GUI geared towards speed and ease of use
even on minimal of hardware without compromising resolution or CPU speed.
With that being said, further open source development is much needed to help
Gary Birkett (lcuk), the project's founder and administrator, to bring the
development of the liqbase framework to the next level. One thing that the
development of liqbase  lacks is comments, code organization, and easy to
read style. I plan to help remedy this with my good organization skills,
coding style, and ability to effectively comment and document code within
it's source to benefit myself months later and other coders wishing to
contribute with relative ease to liqbase. In terms of reorganization, I will
strip unnecessary and redundant code, further consolidate the code into a
clear-cut API and library, and check for possible security vulnerabilities
and memory leaks. This work will help structure the liqbase framework so
that further development goes smoothly and further additions will be a
breeze.

Furthermore, in addition to the maintenance to the status-quo of liqbase, I
plan on developing the GUI framework of liqbase so as to allow with ease for
applications to be built on top of liqbase. As a proof of concept, I plan to
build a Systems/Network monitor that uses the liqbase UI framework to create
a fully interactive and sleek application. This application will use a
server/client model where servers are set up on remote machines and a client
runs on one's tablet.  The servers will constantly transfer systems data to
the listening clients, and the client will display the host name of the
connected server. When one touches (clicks) the host name tile, precise and
comprehensive systems information will be displayed for that machine,
including but not limited to CPU usage, memory usage, processes and their
PID, mem %, cpu %, and uptime. Also, there will be a simple interface for
securely managing aspects of the systems such as killing that darn pidgin
process that somehow has 94% CPU usage.
In conclusion, my project aims to refine existing liqbase code, further
develop the liqbase framework for modular application addition, and to
actually build and document a Systems/Network monitor application so to
establish a proof of concept for other developers to write applications
using the highly interactive and innovative liqbase framework. :)

Project tasks and deliverables:
1) Reorganize, clean up current liqbase framework code.
    - Eliminate redundant code.
    - Add comments where necessary, liqbase lacks adequate explanation for
many complicated blocks of code
    - Further consolidate the liqbase framework library and API the define a
clear-cut set up library functions.
    - Check for security vulnerabilities and memory leaks.
    - Define a clean looking coding style, liqbase code style is pretty
messy now.
    - Help get liqbase ready for Maemo 5 Fremantle.
2) Develop the core liqbase framework to allow for applications to be built
on top of it.
    -  Add to the incomplete aspects of the framework to allow for
applications to be built on top.
3) As a proof of concept, develop a  Systems/Network monitoring application
built on top of the liqbase GUI framework.
    - Develop server/client programs using the TCP/IP sockets API.
    - Write functions for retrieving systems information.
    - Use the liqbase framework to interactively and beautifully display and
manage the data on a Nokia tablet.
4) Document the procedure for writing an application using the liqbase
framework.
    - Write a tutorial or wiki page explaining how to write an application
using liqbase as a UI.

Project schedule:
Now-May 23: Review All Code, Collaborate with lcuk, Submit patches where
needed
May 23-June 15: Project Task #1
June 15-July 15: Project Task #2 full development
July 15-August 17:
    - Project Task #3 with Task #2 refinement, testing, bug fixing
    - Project Task #4 writeup tutorial documentation, this shouldn't take
very long
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