GSoC 2010 – week summary: May 3rd – May 9th
This is the first post of the “week summary” series, where I will summarize my work in regard to my FLOW3 GSoC project (an i18n / l10n subsystem).
So first of all I needed to do some paperwork. I scanned the Student Foreign Certification, and a proof of enrollment (student identification card in my case). I emailed it to Carol Smith administering this year’s GSoC program, and I’m waiting for response to know if these documents are sufficient. I also signed and sent the Contributor License Agreement for TYPO3 Association in order to be accepted as a contributor.
Simultaneously I was preparing my environment in order to write code for FLOW3 project. Unfortunately here first problems occurred. PHP 5.3, PHPUnit, and Phing – all seemed to work properly, but connected together they failed. I wasn’t receiving any summary after running FLOW3 unit-test suite. No errors in log either.
I’m not exactly sure about a cause of the problem, but I had PHP 5.3 from dotdeb’s repository, and it was compiled with Suhosin patch. My Mentor, Karsten Dambekalns, pointed out that it may be the problem. So I removed all dotdeb’s packages and compiled PHP by myself. After that I installed all pear packages etc, and now it seems to be ok.
Finally I added an umbrella issues to FLOW3 bugtracker (here). They are strictly related to the timeline and milestones from my proposal. When I will be working on particular features, I will add more precise tasks to this umbrella issues.
Let’s hope I will meet the deadlines I set in my proposal ;-).
