GSoC getting started
From LimeSurvey Manual
Getting Started with LimeSurvey and Google's Summer of Code
The LimeSurvey Development Environment
LimeSurvey Version 2 uses:
- PHP 5 and up
- CakePHP 1.2 Beta Framework w/ CakeMigrations
- jQuery
Student Guidelines
General
- Create a personal account on the limesurvey.org website here (if you don't have one): Click here.
- Create a personal account on sourceforge.net here (if you don't have one): Click here.
- Make sure you subscribe to the limesurvey-developer mailing list. If you want to get notified of any changes in the development source code then subscribe to the limesurvey-csv list too.
- If you use a Windows System get the Subversion client TortoiseSVN to access the source code in the repository on sf.net. You can download it from here.
LimeSurvey 2.0 Development
Configure and Setup LimeSurvey 2
Expectations
- Students are expected to participate widely and fully in the LimeSurvey development community. They are expected to crack at least one joke during the weekly developers meeting. They are expected to have fun and to look for original and unique ways of improving the software. Most importantly, communicate communicate communicate.
Coding Standards
Communication
- Communication is to be carried out by all means possible. Email and IM communication with your mentor would be a primary method. The IRC channel, and website forums are an alternative way.
Documentation
- Documentation is hugely important to our user base, and it is the most difficult to build and maintain. New features need good documentation, but bad documentation is better than none and provides a starting point for future improvement. Continuous improvement is the idea. Students are expected to document their projects and new features.
Show us you can work on LimeSurvey 2
Fix bugs and perform other tasks that makes you a strong contender for being selected as a GSoC student (not mandatory).
Additional information for student developers
With the new LimeSurvey 2.0 code we strictly pay attention to coding guidelines which are very important.
Coding Guidelines and Generic Code Implementation will help you and any developers working on your code at a later time by easier understanding your code and making it more modular.
To ensure this quality we are mentoring student developers using the following steps:
- The student developer needs to choose a task from the bug tracker.
- The developer sends the code to the mentor for review.
- If the mentor is satisfied with the code quality the developer is now ready to work on his idea with LimeSurvey.
- Rinse and repeat Step 1 to 3 until the mentor states that the developer is ready to submit patches freely to the repository.
LimeSurvey Bug Tracker
Visit http://bugs.limesurvey.org/ for our bugtracker!
How to apply
A very important step indeed, if you want to be selected as GSoC student for LimeSurvey. Pretty obviously, if you don't want to apply we won't be able to help you with GSoC. But if you do, we are always there (:biggrin:)!!
Follow the instructions below:
- Setup LimeSurvey 2 Development Environment and play with it. It will be great if you setup a small survey and ask your friends to take it. We are sure you will love it!!
- By this time you will have some working idea about LimeSurvey, you will surely like some features and find some features lacking in LimeSurvey. Yeah! its just the right time to visit the ideas page and look for the ideas you found lacking. If you dont find your ideas there, discuss on the mailing list, LimeSurvey forums or at #limesurvey on Freenode.
- Now contact potential mentors, discuss the idea and prepare your application. See how to write your application.
- Check our Selection Criteria.
- Edit your application if you think it requires some changes after reading our Selection Criteria. Ask your any mentor to review the application and then make the changes as suggested.
- Submit your applications via the Google Summer of Code 2009 site from March 23 - April 3, 2009.
That's it you're done! Google will announce the list of accepted students for LimeSurvey at Google Summer of Code 2009 Site on April 20:19:00 UTC.
No need for you to wait till then. You can start contributing right away! Fix bugs and show us you are the right person deserving to be a GSoC student for LimeSurvey.Good Luck!!
Getting Help
- Visit the official Lime Survey IRC Channel and SAY HELLO TO US!
([1]) - Ask for help. We are good guys and want you to have fun all summer while being with LimeSurvey. So, don't hesitate at anything that's troubling or bothering you.
More Information
LimeSurvey Google Summer of Code 2009
An introduction to LimeSurvey and our application for this years Google Summer of Code
Project Ideas Page
The LimeSurvey Community Ideas Page:
- ideas that the community have come up with and would love to help you create