Hello, My name is David Udelson. I am a freshman Computer Science undergraduate at Cornell University. I have 3 years of experience with python under my belt, but I've never contributed to an open source project because I've never known where to begin. I'm hoping GSoC will provide me with that starting point, as well as an opportunity to make some meaningful contributions to the open source community.

I'm interested in contributing to the Hyperkitty archiver. Specifically, it looks like some requested features for Hyperkitty include rss syndication for entire mailing lists/specific users/specific threads, and the ability to view entire threads as plaintext and download that plaintext. I have the following questions regarding these features:

1. Are these features definitely expected to be in future releases, or are they just "nice-to-haves"? If there are more important/pressing issues that the Hyperkitty devs think I could implement instead, I would prefer to work on those.
2. Are both of these features implementable within the GSoC timeline, or should I only pursue one of them?

Thanks, David