Google Summer of Code 2017 — Report

Rajat Patwa
Aug 24, 2017 · 3 min read

Project: GitHub Issue Parser App

Organisation: Mozilla

Program: Mozilla Campus Clubs

Mentor: Christos Bacharakis

Before diving in I would like thanks my mentor Christos Bacharakis to support me and me guide me to the right direction.

And for the upcoming students applying for GSoC — Mozilla. Don’t wait just start contributing. Working with Mozilla is super fun.


Project Overview

The purpose of this project is to create a software tool that is capable of parsing popular online version control repositories, like GitHub, via their public APIs in order to detect open issues of projects, classify them based on several predefined configurable criteria and serve them via a public RESTFul API. You can have a look at the back end repository here: https://github.com/mozillacampusclubs/issue_parser_backend

A complimentary web application should be created in order to consume this API and visualize the results of this service in an elegant and useful way. Have a look at the front end repository here: https://github.com/mozillacampusclubs/issue_parser_frontend/

To get more insight about the project head over to this design doc.

Related Pull Requests

Given below are pull request that I have created for both the front end and the back end repository.

Pull Requests Related to Back End

Pull Requests Related to Front End

Open Issues Related to Project

There are some issues related to project are open right now.

Open Issues Related to Back End

Open Issues Related to Front End

Learning and Challenges

While I was working on my project I learned a lot of things like — writing design docs, writing quality code and effectively testing the code. Also, learned the TDD (Test Driven Development) approach. So, GSoC really helped me in growing myself on my road to becoming a super cool engineer.

There are some challenges I faced while working on my project, one of them is to back feed the backend from GitHub API. I solved this challenge by learning a library called Celery and used it to solve the problem of fetching data from GitHub servers.

How to Contribute

There are some open issues related to the project anyone who is interested in contributing to the project can visit these links.

Backend: https://github.com/mozillacampusclubs/issue_parser_backend

Frontend: https://github.com/mozillacampusclubs/issue_parser_frontend/

To get more insight about the project head over to this design doc.

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Rajat Patwa

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Student Developer — Google Summer of Code @mozilla

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