Hi,
As you will probably know by my few posts. I had been intending on producing an archiver for my project. Unfortunately, yesterday I learned about a project (SMART Archiver) that pretty much does everything I was intending to do, which makes me pretty redundant.
I'm quite desperate, Barry suggested that I ask here if anyone can suggest any other work I could do for my project?
My project has to be a substantial piece of individual work that actually produces some kind of software artifact. It should be produced independently, I shouldn't be reliant on anyone else in order to complete the project. It also has to be challenging, in order to get good marks I have to solve problems, it cannot just be something like bug fixing an existing program. I am meant to spend 200 hours on my project, including report writing and presentation writing.
Thanks for any advice.
Iain
As you will probably know by my few posts. I had been intending on producing an archiver for my project. Unfortunately, yesterday I learned about a project (SMART Archiver) that pretty much does everything I was intending to do, which makes me pretty redundant. Sorry, to shatter your plans. I wouldn't call you or a new archiver
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:06:34AM +0000, Iain Bapty wrote: project redundant. I think it was very good of you to ask the community for input on your ideas.
I'm quite desperate, Barry suggested that I ask here if anyone can suggest any other work I could do for my project?
My project has to be a substantial piece of individual work that actually produces some kind of software artifact. It should be produced independently, I shouldn't be reliant on anyone else in order to complete the project. It also has to be challenging, in order to get good marks I have to solve problems, it cannot just be something like bug fixing an existing program. I am meant to spend 200 hours on my project, including report writing and presentation writing. Well, I think you underestimated the work of creating an archiver you described (especially if you would have implemented every wish of the mailman community ;). I don't know how long the SmartArchiver people worked on the project, but I think it was done with more people and more time.
Things you might consider:
Extension to SmartArchiver/mailman2/mailman3. I think it should be possible to define a project which you can do on your own, and contribute to other projects. E.g. creating a good persistance layer for an archiver, for example using Ape: http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/Ape
making a good spam handling mechanism for mailman (including the ability to approve messages through the web, be able to monitor the spam, etc) and being able to report spam-messages to Pyzor/Razor/DCC. There are a lot of parts available, but I think good integration of those parts is lacking at this moment. I really think you could solve a problem for quite some people with this. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mailman.devel/14910/ for my ideas.
ask the same question on the zope-dev or zope3-dev mailinglist. There aren't a lot applications for Zope3, and there may be great ideas for such small projects.
Thanks for any advice. Your welcome, Good luck,
Pieter
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