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.<br>
<br>Thanks, Zach<br><br>Liqbase Framework Development and Application Implementation<br><div id=":10q" class="ii gt">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<div class="im"><br>Project Abstraction:<br>Assist in the development of the liqbase
framework, and apply the liqbase framework as a UI for an interactive
network/system monitoring tool.<br><br>Project Full Description:<br></div>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.<br>
<br>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.<div class="im"><br>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. :)<br>
<br>Project tasks and deliverables:<br></div>1) Reorganize, clean up current liqbase framework code.<br> - Eliminate redundant code.<br><div class="im"> - Add comments where necessary, liqbase lacks adequate explanation for many complicated blocks of code<br>
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- Further consolidate the liqbase framework library and API the define a clear-cut set up library functions.<br></div><div class="im"> - Check for security vulnerabilities and memory leaks.<br></div> - Define a clean looking coding style, liqbase code style is pretty messy now.<br>
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- Help get liqbase ready for Maemo 5 Fremantle.<br>2) Develop the core liqbase framework to allow for applications to be built on top of it.<br> - Add to the incomplete aspects of the framework to allow for applications to be built on top.<br>
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3) As a proof of concept, develop a Systems/Network monitoring application built on top of the liqbase GUI framework.<br> - Develop server/client programs using the TCP/IP sockets API.<br> - Write functions for retrieving systems information.<br>
- Use the liqbase framework to interactively and beautifully display and manage the data on a Nokia tablet.<br>4) Document the procedure for writing an application using the liqbase framework.<br> - Write a tutorial or wiki page explaining how to write an application using liqbase as a UI.<br>
<br></div>Project schedule:<br>Now-May 23: Review All Code, Collaborate with lcuk, Submit patches where needed<br><div class="im">May 23-June 15: Project Task #1<br>June 15-July 15: Project Task #2 full development<br>
July 15-August 17:<br>
- Project Task #3 with Task #2 refinement, testing, bug fixing<br> - Project Task #4 writeup tutorial documentation, this shouldn't take very long</div></div>