Re: [Info-gnuprologjava] Google Summer of Code

[Simon]

Hi Daniel,
Is there any documentation for your test framework, or can you give me a
basic idea of how to add tests to it?
Cheers,
Simon

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:18 +0100, Daniel Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:26 +0100, Simon wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I am hoping to contribute to GNU for my Google Summer of Code project,
> > and thought that your branch of the company seemed interesting and
> > challenging to work in.
> > 
> > I am a second year computer scientist studying at the University of St.
> > Andrews.
> > 
> > I have programming skills in Java, Python, C, Haskell, HTML, Javascript,
> > MIPS32 assembly and some in CLISP. I do not know any Prolog, but have
> > been wanting to get into it for a while, and this seems like the perfect
> > opportunity. I have experience in implementing programming languages
> > through a project for my university which involved creating a C-syntax,
> > strongly and dynamically typed turtle graphics language in Haskell.
> > 
> > I thought that implementing part two of the ISO standard (Modules)
> > looked like as good a choice as any for the project.
> > 
> > Would someone in your team be able to give me some pointers for writing
> > up a project proposal? If you have any other questions to see if I would
> > be a suitable candidate, please do not hesitate to ask.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Simon Brand
> 
> Hello Simon Brand,
> 
> It is great that you are interested in this project. In terms of writing
> a proposal you will need to use the GNU template listed on
> http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html
> 
> I really want to see patch(s) before the proposal deadline so that I
> know that you can work with the code. If you check the newmaster branch
> out of git:
> $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnuprologjava.git
> $ git checkout newmaster
> 
> Having done that and with maven and sonar http://www.sonarsource.org/
> installed and configured correctly then running
> $ mvn sonar:sonar
> should run the kind of static analysis you suggested in your later
> email. You might want to create a patch to fix any obvious flaws or bugs
> which that shows you.
> 
> Alternatively/additionally https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32560 looks
> like it should be an easy bug to at least confirm or deny. If you add a
> suitable test to the inria suite in test/inriasuite/assertz and then run
> the tests using
> gnu.prolog.test.GoalRunner --once inriasuite.pl run_all_tests
> 
> Currently the output from the inriasuite gives "The following *10* BIPs
> gave a total of *26* unexpected answers:" due to a combination
> non-standards compliant code and incomplete tests.
> 
> If you send in patch(es) then that will demonstrate that you can use the
> code base and help me assess your coding skills.
> 
> If you have used Java before then I assume that you know Eclipse? I am
> using Eclipse for development work. We use Ant for building and git for
> version control are you familiar with those? I doesn't matter too much
> if you aren't as they shouldn't take long to learn.
> 
> Have you made contributions to other open source projects in the past?
> (again not necessary but interesting)
> 
> I hope that that helps,
> 
> Daniel